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 Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England
d. Machiavelli's The Prince

Answer 1

Its B  lockes second treatise

Answer 2

Answer:

The correct answer for: 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? Is: b. Locke's Second Treatise of Government

Explanation:

First of all to understand this answer we have to analyze the context. Locke's second treatise of government says that by being part of society and associating it with nature. Any person as a contributor and participant of a society is also the owner of a fraction of it. It also says that we are all equal and we have all the same rights and duties. And if a government rules without contentment of its people it can be overthrown.