William Blackstone- Wrote the commentaries on the Laws of England
John Locke- Maintained that the government cannot black a citizen's rights to life, liberty, and property, Believed that natural law was given to humans by God, wrote the Second Treatise on Government, Supported the concept of popular sovereignty.
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The invention of machine guns greatly influenced European states in the 19th century because it allowed them to violently colonize Africa with little-to-no resistance, since the weapons used by the native Africans could not compete.
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to keep his people from rebelling against his government