Ch. 5.2 DQ
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“To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.
“A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another. . . .
“The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it which obliges every one . . . that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”
John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, 1689
The ideas in the excerpt were most likely interpreted by American colonists in the 1770s as a call to reject which of the following?
The holding of private property
The creation of political parties
The establishment of representative democracy
The acceptance of the divine right of kings
30s - Q2
“To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.
“A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another. . . .
“The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it which obliges every one . . . that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”
John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, 1689
During the period of the American Revolution, Locke’s point of view in the excerpt would most likely have been interpreted as promoting a form of government based on
natural rights
military rule
religious beliefs
hereditary privilege
30s - Q3
“To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.
“A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another. . . .
“The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it which obliges every one . . . that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”
John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, 1689
Interpretations of Locke’s assertions regarding a “state of freedom” and a “state also of equality” most directly influenced which of the following?
The demands by colonists to settle beyond the current frontier boundaries
The grievances of American colonists during the Seven Years’ War (French and Indian War)
The end of American involvement in the international slave trade
The political rhetoric of Patriots during the American Revolution
30s - Q4
“To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.
“A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another. . . .
“The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it which obliges every one . . . that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”
John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, 1689
The excerpt from Locke’s Two Treatises of Government could best be used as evidence by historians studying which of the following topics?
The influence of the American Revolution on ideas about republicanism overseas
The use of Revolutionary pamphlets to mobilize colonial resistance to British policies
The attempts by African Americans to seek freedom during the American Revolution
The impact of the Enlightenment on Revolutionary political thought
30s - Q5
“Every British Subject born on the continent of America . . . is by the law of God and nature, by the common law, and by act of parliament, . . . entitled to all the natural, essential, inherent and inseparable rights of our fellow subjects in Great-Britain. Among those rights are the following . . . :
“. . . Taxes are not to be laid on the people, but by their consent in person, or by [representatives].
“. . . I can see no reason to doubt, but that the imposition of taxes, whether on trade, or on land, or houses, or ships, . . . in the colonies is absolutely irreconcilable with the rights of the Colonists, as British subjects. . . .
“The power of parliament is uncontrollable, . . . and we must obey. . . . Therefore let the parliament lay what burthens they please on us, we must, it is our duty to submit and patiently bear them till they . . . afford us relief by repealing such acts, as through mistake, or other human infirmities, have been suffered to pass, if they can be convinced that their proceedings are not constitutional.”
James Otis, The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved, pamphlet, 1764
By the 1770s, to which of the following groups would Otis’ argument that the colonies “must obey” Parliament most appeal?
Loyalists in New York
Artisans in port cities
Enslaved people in the southern colonies
Farmers in the New England colonies
30s