Question

Imagine you are preparing a speech on social contract theory for your government class. As apart 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?

Answer 1

The most common source for this would be the Second Treatise on Government by John Locke, the philosopher who inspired things like the French Revolution and the American Declaration of independence, precisely because of those ideas that you mentioned.