Question

3. The social contract theory as applied to the Declaration of Independence most directly reflects

Answer 1

Answer:

John Locke

Explanation:

John Locke could rightly be considered the most prominent natural rights theorist in the modern world. He exhaustively argued that humans have a natural right to life, liberty and property. The Charter of Rights, enacted by the English Parliament in 1689, was designed to translate natural rights into positive rights; it added to them the right of every person charged with a crime to a fair and public trial before a jury and abolished excessive fines and cruel and unusual sentences.

Locke's theory and the example of the English Charter of Rights have had a great impact throughout the Western world. Inspired in so many ways by the English and American Revolution, the French Revolution, which would soon evolve into something completely different from both previous ones, immediately adopted the language of rights. Remembering all this from the time he served in the United States military in the War of Independence, Lafayette conveyed these Anglo-Saxon proclamations almost word for word in the Declaration of Human and Citizen Rights, which marked one of the noblest moments of Paris in 1789. The Declaration states that "people are born and remain free and with equal rights", in fact, that the purpose of all political associations is to safeguard the natural and inalienable rights of man ": these rights are freedom, property, security and opposition to violence." . Freedom is said to be "not restrained by anyone to do anything that does not restrict the rights of others," and is considered to encompass the right of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion and freedom from arbitrary arrest.