Question
Use the text excerpt from Article 17 of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen to answer the question.
“Since property is an inviolable and sacred right, no one shall be deprived thereof except where public necessity, legally determined, shall clearly demand it, and then only on condition that the owner shall have been previously and equitably indemnified.”
Which Enlightenment thinker’s ideas are evident in this article?
(1 point)
Responses
Voltaire
Voltaire
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
John Locke
“Since property is an inviolable and sacred right, no one shall be deprived thereof except where public necessity, legally determined, shall clearly demand it, and then only on condition that the owner shall have been previously and equitably indemnified.”
Which Enlightenment thinker’s ideas are evident in this article?
(1 point)
Responses
Voltaire
Voltaire
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft
John Locke
Answers
GPT-4o mini
The ideas evident in this excerpt from Article 17 of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen align most closely with those of **John Locke**. Locke's philosophy emphasized the importance of private property as a natural right and argued that individuals should not be deprived of their property without due process and just compensation, which is reflected in the language of the article.