John Locke was born in Wrington, Somerset on August 29, 1632. ... The taxes were to be collected by local officials such as John's father. ... In 1649, rebels hung King Charles the first. ... King Charles the second elevated him to the peerage (peers as a class; those holding honorary titles), he joined the King's Privy Council, he became Lord Ashley, and then the Earl of the Shaftesbury. ... Meanwhile, King James the second began promoting Catholicism in England because his brother King Charles the second converted to Catholicism before he died in the February of 1685. ...

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The king's unjust rule in the colonies had to be abolished and replaced with their own just government. ... Although not specific, it is clear that the Founding Fathers inspiration for rebellion and abolition came from John Locke. ... John Locke extends the role of the state of nature into the idea of property. ... Every man is a "king". ... When Jefferson made his list of facts concerning the king's oppression of the states, it is clear that the pursuit of property would look very limiting to John Locke. ...

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This not only caused unrest for Washington, but for all colonists, who were now thinking of breaking away from King George III and England. ... A lesser person might have used this power to establish a military dictatorship or to become king. ... Washington lived only two years after turning over the presidency to his successor, John Adams. ... After the war John Adams became vice-president under George Washington for two terms. ... After John Adams Jefferson became the United States third president. ...

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Hobbes and Locke; the State of Nature and Sovereignty John Locke and Thomas Hobbes both wrote on many of the same issues of social philosophy yet due to a basic different philosophical conception of the world, they held very different opinions. ... For reasons too many psychoanalysts could posit, John Locke saw things quite differently, beginning most importantly with his conception of the state of nature. ... He saw man in the state of nature as a king, "an absolute lord over his person and possessions-. ... However as soon as it stops fulfilling its end of the deal, a la Kin...

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On June 11th 1776, a five men committee consisting of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston and Roger Sherman was appointed to write a draft of the Declaration by the Continental Congress. ... Afterwards a trial was held but the British, represented by John Adams and Josiah Quincy III, were acquitted. ... Even the king cannot be immune to the "Laws of Nature". ... Following the preamble is a long list of, historical and political, wrong doings by King George III, who is referred to as "He". ... It appealed to its audience because it was written...

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During the American Revolution John Adams deliberated the reasons and worth of the fight. ... Jonathan Mayhew justified overthrowing the King by proving that intentional unjust laws are considered abuse. ... One would see petitions overlooked and the foolish and harshness of the crown (a.k.a. the King). ... John's Church, Richmond, Virginia, he calls for the people to stand up and fight with their fellow brothers. ... The law set against the colonists were unjust, and the King did not change them regardless of how many petitions the...

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Revolutionaries supported the writings of people like John Locke and Voltaire who wrote about everyone having God given rights. ... When they were caught the King was forced to sign and accept the new constitution. ... Upon learning about the King's betrayal, the National Assembly jailed the king and his family, leaving the new government to make laws without worrying about the King interfering. ... People of the Assembly demanded that the King was put on trial for treason. On January 21, 1793, King Louis XVI was beheaded. ...

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The story opens in England, October 26, 1775, with King George III of England addressing the British Parliament on the war in the North American colonies. ... McCullough offers the British perspective on the events in faraway North America first, re-creating the debate in Parliament over the king's decision to quash the rebellion. ... He writes evenhandedly about the British generals Howe, Henry Clinton, John Burgoyne, and Charles Cornwallis. Howe had served under General James Wolfe, who called him "the best officer in the King's service.... Readers interested in a wider view...

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" is there any inhabitant in America so ignorant, as not to know, that according to what is called the PRESENT CONSTITUTION, that this continent can make no laws but what the king gives it leave to; and is there any man so unwise, as not to see, that (considering what has happened) he will suffer no law to be made here, but such as suit HIS purpose." ... After the end of the civil war in England, and the restoration of King Charles II, England closed its grip on the colonies. ... Faced with the discontent of the colonists, ranging from insubstantial talk right up to the open rebellions ...

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Henceforth the king was the sole repository of sovereign power. In a very real sense the king was the state. ... Philosophers as the father of liberal theory John Locke spread a body of ideas of reform to lead French people through the liberty path and make them believe there was a chance for a better life. ... Again the picture is the same as in the French Revolution: the appearance of a tyrannical government "The King George who felt that it would maintain the general principle that this government had the right to impose citizen's duties" and people fighting for their rights "The...

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In John Dickinson's "Letter 2" from Letters from a Farmer he writes, "If Great-Britain can order us to come to her for necessaries we want, and can order us to pay what taxes she pleases before we take them away, or when we land them here, we are as abject slaves as France and Poland can show in wooden shoes, and with uncombed hair", [Dic68]. ... In a letter from a Boston merchant named John Andrews to his brother in Philadelphia it says, "I sincerely believe they [the British Parliament] intend to carry out their threats, which are to make the town a desolate wil...

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XXI Of the Liberty of Subjects John Locke - First is the assumption of a system of morality--the natural law derives from a theory of justice, a set of rights. ... - Locke then posits that proof of this natural law lies in the fact that, even though a person cannot reasonably be under the power of a foreign king, if a person commits a crime in a foreign country they can still be punished...

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John Adams is quoted as saying that a "full one third were adverse to the Revolution an opposite one third conceived a hatred of the English the middle one third were rather luke-warm." ... A few loud, rebel-rousing colonists to begin to rally support for rebellion by holding pro-war rallies and publishing pro-war pamphlets, such as Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine, which he states, "As a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question and as the King of England hath undertaken in his own Right, to support the Parliament in what he c...

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John Adams is quoted as saying that a "full one third were adverse to the Revolution an opposite one third conceived a hatred of the English the middle one third were rather luke-warm." ... A few loud, rebel-rousing colonists to begin to rally support for rebellion by holding pro-war rallies and publishing pro-war pamphlets, such as Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine, which he states, "As a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question and as the King of England hath undertaken in his own Right, to support the Parliament in what he c...

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The Declaration of Independence was written as a means of accusing the English King of wrongs before the world as a jury. ... (Adler 23) But under which law was the King to be accused? ... Jefferson instead chose to use a law John Locke had first proposed called natural law, which had become the very fuel enflaming the colonies. ... Many believe that it was a declaration to England and her King of the colony's intent to be independent. ...

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Incidents such as the seizure of a ship belonging to John Hancock (1768), the Boston massacre in 1770 and the burning of the H.M.S.Gaspee in 1772 kept the flame of rebellion lit. ... A petition was sent to the King. ... The Declaration then goes on to mention a large number of grievances against the monarchy (Referred to as "HE", which should be taken as reference to the King of England). ...

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Man's law which is also known as the law of Nature and God's law is mentioned once again when John Winthrop speaks to the settlers from the Arbella ship. ... Also Martin Luther King, a reverend, led the civil rights movement in a hostile culture to gain rights for the minority. ...

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In his acts of rebellion against King George III's presumably tyrannous misdeeds ultimately led to the separation of the colonial people into the Tories and the Whigs, the loyalists and the patriots. ... Congress had voted to discipline him for his actions but John Quincy Adams came to his defense. ...

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