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A 9 page paper which analyzes the pros and cons of John Locke's 'Two Treatises on Civil Government' in terms of how it applied to the revolutionary. Specifically considered are the creation of state constitutions following the Declaration of Independence; theoretical problems of Locke's treatise concerning the foundation of imperial connection; how Locke paid little attention to the mechanism by which people could make their decisions known; Locke's failure to clarify the rule of parliament in relation to the community (or state of nature) as a whole; problems of the revolutionary allegiance to the king after the colonist break from Great Britain, considering that a state of nature had not been created. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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File: TG15_TGlocke.rtf
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of Civil Government (1690). While the first treatise concentrated on dismissing the notion of the "divine right of kings," the second explored the conditions under which rebellion is just.
While Lockes hypotheses were directed toward the British government that existed during the late seventeenth century, they served as the inspiration for the eighteenth-century American colonists to rebel against
what they considered to be the unfair and unjust taxation imposed by King George III. The Declaration of Independence may have penned in Thomas Jeffersons eloquent prose, but much
of the thoughts articulated are those of John Locke, especially evident in the opening passage, "WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to
dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature
and of Natures God entitle them... WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" (Declaration of Independence). This was little more than a rewording of Lockes description of the state
of nature: "We must consider what estate all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and
persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of Nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man" (Locke 192). While the
revolutionaries certainly found Lockes perfect freedom within the constraints of a law of nature sufficient grounds to wage a rebellion, thereby constructing a natural state of their own making, this
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