- John Locke: Second Treatise on Government
- Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan
- William Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England
- Jean Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract
Explanation:
1. <em>Two Treatises of Government</em> (1689) is one of John Locke's most famous works. In this work, he established the principle that men are naturally free and equal, but with the purpose to interact in a healthy society, it was necessary that they transferred some of their rights to a government that the people chose and changed when they deemed necessary.
2. Thomas Hobbes published <em>Leviathan: The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiastical and Civil</em> in 1651. With this book, he became the first philosopher who developed the concept of Social Contract.
3. The most influential work of William Blackstone was the <em>Commentaries on the Laws of England</em> (1765-1769) in which he fully described the doctrines of English law.
4. Jean-Jacques Rousseau published <em>The Social Contract </em>in 1762, which was a work that provided the means to establish a political community that would benefit the modern society.
<span>They built up their supply of arms and made agreements to support each other in the event of war.
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<span>Britain and France had been competing for wealth for centuries. By 1700 they were two of the strongest powers in Europe. Their long rivalry aroused bitter feelings betwen British and French colonists in North America. Also, in America, in the 1700s, both France and Britain wanted to claim the Ohio River Valley.</span>
Answer:
The correct answer is B. The distance of the colonies from Great Britain was the factor that contributed to the creation of the documents in the list.
Explanation:
The Mayflower Pact, signed on November 21, 1620 by the Pilgrim Fathers, was the first government document that was operative in the territory of the United States. His objective was to set rules of government for the Plymouth colony, which was about to be created.
For its part, the House of Burgesses of Virginia was the first autonomous legislature founded in America, in 1619. It had operational freedom with respect to the British Parliament, and was in charge of legislating regarding the life of the Virginia colonists and the colony in general.
Finally, the Fundamentals Orders of Connecticut, approved in 1639, were the fundamental rule of the cities located in that region, destined to regulate the organization of the government and the rights of its citizens.
In all cases, these were initiatives by the colonists to regulate their political and civil affairs with autonomy from Great Britain, which is explained by the distance of the metropolis from the colonies. Thus, the settlers understood that they were the ones who best understood their situation, and not the parliamentarians who were thousands of kilometers away in London.
