Instructions: While watching the video, answer the following questions. After watching the video, attempt to add from memory any thoughts that may clarify your answers. Write answers to questions in the text entry box.

Question

1. What are the three natural rights that John Locke discusses?





2. What is Locke’s main argument in Two Treatises of Government?





3. Why did Locke oppose the idea of the divine right of kings?





4. How does Locke believe a government should be structured?





5. In Locke’s view, when do people have the right to overthrow their government?

Answer 1

1. The three natural rights that John Locke discusses are life, liberty, and property.

2. Locke’s main argument in "Two Treatises of Government" is that governments are formed through the consent of the governed to protect their natural rights. He argues against absolute monarchy and proposes that legitimate political power derives from the social contract between rulers and the ruled.

3. Locke opposed the idea of the divine right of kings because he believed that government should be based on the consent of the people rather than on divine decree. He argued that no person has an inherent right to rule others without their consent, and that monarchs do not have an absolute authority over their subjects.

4. Locke believes that a government should be structured as a representative democracy, where power is separated into different branches to prevent tyranny. He emphasizes the importance of a system of checks and balances, and the protection of individual rights through laws agreed upon by the society.

5. In Locke’s view, people have the right to overthrow their government when it fails to protect their natural rights or acts against the interests of the people. If the government becomes tyrannical or abuses its power, citizens have the moral authority to resist and ultimately replace it.