In 1688, Catholic King James, the second of England's throne, was in jeopardy. King James II granted religious freedom to Catholics and Protestants (John McKay et. al. 512). ... Many in Parliament were upset because most of the King's subjects were Protestant now. ... John Locke's Treatise defends this type of revolution. ... John Locke's Treatise espoused the concepts of human rights and equality that became common ideas discussed during the Enlightenment Period (John McKay et. al. 525). ...

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John Locke was will and most influential people in the French Revolution also in the American Revolution. ... Which John Locke's ideas of natural laws helped because he believed that if a government fails to provide the citizens with these laws that the citizens have the right to overthrow the government. ... So during the French Revolution there was a Constitution that was signed that would give the citizens and in forced the king to follow his own rules or he would either get punished exiled or even executed. ... John Locke is known as one of the most influential philosophers he had to ...

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John Locke's essay on Civil Government states that, "The people shall be judge". ... He believes that the king had the final say in everything. His theory also includes the idea that the king is the "representative of divine majesty." Bossuet said that every man was the king's servant. ...

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Look into the eyes of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes as they called for the leaders and people to reform and unite to for a great state and country. ... The king is also a detriment to his country. ... A government must at the to with its king. ... The king must see and hear all the countries demands. ... The true mark of a good king is the rights of his people. ...

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Through out this period came great Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke and Voltaire. John Locke, the earliest Enlightenment thinker, was born in England in 1632. ... If the government or king were to fail that, the people had the right to over throw them with no shame. That is why he encouraged a limited monarchy because then if powers were separated, the king would not have so much power. ...

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John Locke was born on August 29, 1632, near Bristol, England. ... Locke was growing up during the English Civil War, in which Parliamentary forces battled King Charles I over matters of taxation, political power, and true religion. ... John Locke however, did not receive his degree in medicine from Oxford until 1674. ... These concepts originated from the philosophies of John Locke. ... Certainly John Locke had an influential voice to be heard by the people. ...

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John Locke was a Treatise writer and political philosopher who spoke against Sir Robert Filmer and wanted to justify the rule of King William. ... On the subject of ruling a country, John Locke brings up a constant concern. ... John Locke was obviously addressing Sir Robert Filmer because of his idea of a divine authority. ... When John Locke wrote about a civil government, he did not encourage it totally. ... In Chapter eleven John Locke calls legislature the supreme power in the government. ...

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The colonists responded with the Stamp Act Congress, which drew up a petition to send to King George and Parliament. ... In the early 1760's, when revolutionary ideas were just beginning to emerge, people looked at two sources of information to justify radical ideas: the Bible and John Locke. The Bible told stories of an unjust King in Israel and how he was overthrown when he imposed unfair taxes on his people. ... John Locke, an English Enlightenment philosopher, argued that humans had "natural rights" to life, liberty, and property. ... Finally, colonists received a spirit of revolution...

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John Locke advocated the three natural rights of man, which influenced many of the Enlightenment's changes and revolution. ... The first two estates had never gotten taxed before and now they were going to be by King Louie the Sixteenth, because of France's huge debt problem. ... The Assembly formed an army and stormed the Bastille, where the king was living at the time with his wife and children. ... There were many great thinkers of the Enlightenment, such as John Locke, Galileo, Voltaire, J.J. ...

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Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean Jaques Rousseau were three enlightenment thinkers who each drafted different ideas about the state of nature, and political solutions to make society and government more utopia-like. ... Unlike Hobbes' dim view of human nature, John Locke believed that all humans are born a blank slate that is shaped by one's experiences, and advocated that humans should be governed by a representative democracy that protects their three fundamental rights to life, liberty, and property. ... The whole reasoning behind the revolution was that the people felt that th...

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Enlightenment thinkers influenced many of Paine's theories, such as John Locke and Jean- Jacques Rousseau. ... It is believed that at first the world was without kings, but the ancient Jews decided they wanted a King; and it is said that this angered God, but he let them have a King. There are specific pages of biblical evidence that addresses God's wrath at the idea of the Jews having a King. ... Even if the people were to choose to have a King that does not mean the King's child will be a future ruler. ... Paine was influenced by Voltaire, Jean- Jacques Rousseau, and John Loc...

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There were many important men in history of America, for example Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson. ... John Locke was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. ... John Locke highlights the need for a political state in the absence of one because of the insecurity created. ... Paine argues that the interests of the monarch and his people are united, and insists that the French Revolution should be understood as one which attacks the despotic principles of the French monarchy, not the king himself, and he...

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Philosophes such as John Locke and Mary Wollstonecraft introduced revolutionary ideas that all are equal and deserve certain rights. ... During the Enlightenment, John Locke was one of the pioneers of advocating equality (Williams, 11). ... However, the members of the Third Estate felt as if they deserved this equality that John Locke as well as the overall feeling of the Enlightenment advocated. Inspired, they went on to write cahiers de doleances, or lists of grievances, in which they demanded equality among all of the king's subjects. ... With John Locke's ideas in mind, the Natio...

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The old idea was that the king was sent by god to be a ruler, known as the divine right. ... John Locke, Voltaire, Baron de Montesquieu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau expressed the main views on government. ... John Locke believed, as most people did, that the people were capable of helping make the government decisions. John Locke was a philosopher who believed that did not have to constantly be in war but they could learn from their mistakes and improve themselves. ...

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The philosopher, John Locke, argued that it is the government's soul duty role to protect its peoples' rights to Liberty, Life, and private property. ... Both the French and American declarations portray the tyranny of their current government: one by the monarchy of the British King; the other, an Oligarchy class structure. ...

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Besides, he stressed that the United States should set up a government without the power of any king and nobility, this made the people determined to have revolution. ... The ideal of declaration directly quoted from the British philosopher John Locke's writings. ...

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Locke was born in Wrington in Somerset County of Britain. After attending Oxford University, Locke began to tutor the family of a very prominent man, Anthony Ashley Cooper, who eventually became the King of England. While Cooper was on the throne, Locke experienced power as well, but when Cooper was...

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