Enlightenment thinkers
that government should exist by the consent of the people.
The Bill of Rights is an example of how Enlightenment is reflected in the United?æStates Constitution. The Bill of Rights makes sure the government is held responsible for protecting its citizens.
The consent of the governed is an idea born of the enlightenment and the writings of John Locke. This is the idea that a government gains its power via the willingness of the people to support it. The US system expresses this notion by holding elections in which the people (the governed) select their representatives to govern (there by giving consent).
Popular sovereignty refers to a system in which the government derives power from the consent of the governed. This was a very popular political ideal during the years of the Enlightenment, when philosophers began to contemplate government systems other than monarchies, and to draw up governments based on the consent of the governed people. These ideals gave rise to the world's democracies, including that which is used in the United States.
The idea that government exists only by the consent of the people was popularized by the Enlightenment philosopher John Locke. Locke believed that individuals have natural rights and that governments derive their legitimacy from the consent of the governed.
John Locke
John Locke
Hobbes, an Enlightenment Philosopher believed people needed to be governed by an absolute monarch as described in his writing called the Leviathan.
Enlightenment thinkers
that government should exist by the consent of the people.
John Locke argued that government holds its authority only with the consent of the people. He believed that individuals have natural rights that should be protected, and that government exists to secure these rights through the consent of the governed.
Government should exist with the consent of the people.
Government should exist with the consent of the people.
that the government should exist by the consent of the people (apex)
The social Contract he argueed that a government should be formed by the consent of the people
that government should exist by the consent of the people.