Comment on the Locke’s views on Revolution in 150 words
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Route 1 revolution flows from trust theory → state holds delegated power, real power stays with people
Route 2 Locke as defender of the Glorious Revolution → resistance to tyranny built into the social contract → right to revolt
trust + delegated power → breach (arbitrary will / failure to protect life, liberty, property) → power returns to people → right to revolt → meaning narrowed → unlike Marx, not violent overthrow → peaceful constitutional change of rulers / no-confidence analogue → dissolution of government ≠ dissolution of society
conservative by temperament → Sabine: not a revolutionary, extreme cases only → Plamenatz: right confined to educated / propertied classes
Route 1 limited, defensive safeguard against tyranny, not radical change
Route 2 legitimacy rests on consent → consent withdrawn on breach → revolution as constitutional self-correction
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
Also asked on this head
Western Political Thought — 27 questions in the Vault.
- Hannah Arendt analysed a few categories of vita activa. Explain.
- Marx’s concept of ‘alienation’ is an essential part of the reality in capitalism. Explain.
- Discuss Karl Marx’s concept of class.
How this is taught
The same flow snapshot, built for every head of the syllabus, with the answer written in class.
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