He is most famous his influential ideas one of his most famous for his natural laws which were life liberty and property. ... Now the life of the people before the French Revolution was horrible they were always under constant harsh rulings by their unfair unjust kings. ... Which John Locke's ideas of natural laws helped because he believed that if a government fails to provide the citizens with these laws that the citizens have the right to overthrow the government. ... Liberty now because of how the Kings lived how they would set laws and break them themselves they felt like they could ...

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The colonists tolerated the first three acts, but after the Stamp Act was issued, they refused, claiming "taxation without representation" was unjust, and they wanted actual representation in Parliament, not virtual. Colonists taunted the enforcers of the laws, causing several British officers to fire into a taunting crowd of colonists. ... Also, there were so many different religions in America that it was uncomfortable to have Anglicans enforcing the law. ...

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Jefferson justified the colony's rebellion in his Declaration of Independence by stating that "when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth... the laws of nature [that] God entitle[s] them..." . ... Ironically, at the start of the revolution Americans only desired to be goverened by traditional English law. ... The colonists exerted seditious behavior, despite protocol which stated that people should remain subservient to their leaders in spite of ...

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In chapter sixteen Locke shows that his model is against the unjust conquering when he writes "The aggressor who puts himself into the state of war with another and unjustly invades another mans rights can never come to have a right over the conquered" (P. 97). ... Locke jumps from "State of Nature" to "Law of Nature" which justifies killing an individual in self-defense if that person is invading the freedom of another. ... It issues the laws that the executive must enforce and the judiciary must use as a measure of justice. ...

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On October 19, 1765 the Stamp Act Congress and Parliamentary Taxation committee's passed some laws that attempted to strengthen the grip of the English crown. ... "[The British declared] that parliament can "of right make laws to bind us in all cases whatsoever The latter is our choice." ... There were different characters that thought the British was unjust or the Americans were unjust. ...

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He then studied law under the chief justice of New York and was licensed as an attorney in October 1771. ... He believed that the War of 1812 was "unjust, unwise, mismanaged," he supported the disastrous Hartford Convention of 1814 as a result of this. ...

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Like the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence which would be drafted later on, this document provided for the protection against unjust punishment and the loss of life, liberty, and property except according to law. ... The main ideas that the Bill of Rights embodied included: 1) That monarchs do not have the divine right to rule and that they rule with the consent of the people's representative in Parliament. 2) The monarch must have Parliament's consent to suspend laws, levy taxes, or maintain an army. 3) The monarch cannot interfere with parliamentary elections an...

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He refused to be governed by his own laws, forced extreme taxation upon the colonists, cut off their trade, and above all declared war on them. ... In the declaration of independence, the wrongs done by the king fall more into the category of lawfully unjust while those of the institute of men fall in the morally wrong division. ...

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In the 75 years after the French and Indian war the British laws were not enforced, and they began Tufto 2 to develop their own profits through smuggling. ... The first tax law passed was the Sugar Act. ... All the colonies, except Georgia, agreed to resist all tax laws. ... The Bible told stories of an unjust King in Israel and how he was overthrown when he imposed unfair taxes on his people. ...

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Paine's analogy says that if a group of people are left on an island, the emergence of a law making institution representing them will soon emerge to regulate their issues. ... Otis delivers this part in co-ordination with religious teachings by saying that the law of nature from the divine gave the power in every one of the people; power in all for all. He makes it clear that the British government is unjust and failed its "divine" role when slavery and war is spread. ...

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