“. . . whenever the Legislators endeavour to take away, and destroy the Property of the People, or to reduce them to Slavery under Arbitrary Power, they put themselves into a state of War with the People, who are thereupon absolved from any farther Obedience.”
–John Locke, 1690
The ideas of the English philosopher John Locke had a major influence on the:
A. creation of the Magna Carta.
B. origins of the Intolerable Acts.
C. writing of the Declaration of Independence.
D. acceptance of the Great Compromise.