He warned the new king Charles II that his usage owas for the most part destructive to his citizens at home and with his characteristic outspoken manner, frequently spoke up for the freedoms and rights of the lower classes. ... John Hancock If there was ever a more recognizable name during the Revolutionary War period of American history, it was most certainly the deservingly famed representative John Hancock. ... If there was one such a gentleman who sided with American Independence, this again was John Hancock, the first signer of the Declaration of Independence. ...

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No soul dared to threaten the authority of king or church as those who did might be tortured or burned at the stake. ... John Locke presented the reinvented theory that, symbolic of a social contract, there must be a compromise between the sovereign and his subjects whereby respect for the ruler receives an equal respect for the liberties and rights of property of his people, as opposed to a complete surrender of rights for nothing in return, in which case the contract should be dissolved. ... The obvious danger of such economic control initiated a full-blown assailment against wealth, peculia...

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