Question

Imagine you are preparing a speech on social contract theory for your government class. As part of your speech, you need to focus on the idea that people have the authority to overthrow a government that has become tyrannical. Which Enlightenment text would be good source material?
a. Hobbes’s Leviathan

b.Locke’s Second Treatise of Government

c.Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws

d.Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England


Any help would be appreciated thanks:)




Machiavelli’s The Prince

Answer 1

I think its B but i may be wrong..

Answer 2

Answer:

b.Locke’s Second Treatise of Government

Explanation:

The two treaties on civil government are a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The first treaty is an attack on patriarchalism, and the second introduces a theory of political or civil society based on natural rights and the social contract.