How to Overthrow the Government

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Also like Aquinas, Locke considered it just for a subject to disobey any ruler overextending his political power.

American revolutionaries accused George III of breaching his implied duty of protection under that contract, thereby releasing the people in the colonies from their allegiance.The Second Amendment as currently interpreted allows people to purchase and posses firearms and other weapons, and rules out most regulations of such ownership, although not all. That model posited the existence of a hypothetical bargain struck in the mists of antiquity between a king and a people.

Philosophical views [ edit ] John Locke [ edit ] Two Treatises of Government, written by John Locke, developed the idea of "right of revolution". The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.In the American Revolutionary context, one finds expressions of the right of revolution both as subject to precondition and as unrestrained by conditions. They always reflect society's loss of a sense of lawfulness, and not only the loss of a sense of lawfulness on the part of those doing the coup. Tracing the causes of government overthrow from the beginning of humanity to 2019, this book has enough meat for the political scientist and political junkie alike yet easy to read for the curious. Revolutionary movements subsequent to this, all drew on Locke's theory as a justification for the exercise of the right of revolution.