They felt confident because of war power
Jonh Locke believed there were moral laws at work in the universe, like others laws that were ruling nature, this moral law ruled human behavior towards a natural morality, which human would be "acting in conformity with reason".
He called this moral order Natural Law.
<span>The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Se…veral colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry.</span>