Jack Eilers

10/21/14
History 6-7
Peer outline

Refutation - Identify and disprove the oppositions main argument(s).

I. Refutation Paragraph
A. Oppositions Point (Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, or Jeffersons Argument)
People have no right to revolt against a king (Hobbes).
B. Your Counter-Point (Refutation)
People do have the right to rebel but only if the government does certain things.
C. Example(s) (Historical Evidence)
1. John Locke says, Governments are meant to protect natural rights and promote the public good
(Locke).
2. They saw the Stamp Act as a violation of their rights as British subjects. No taxation without
representation, they cried (hart 77).
D.

Explain
1.

The government is usually supposed to protect and maintain the peoples natural rights. If the

government gets selfish and only does that for them or doesnt do it at all this means that the people
should rebel. The people are the ones who made the government and if the government takes their
power for granted then the people should rebel and elect another form of government.
2. The colonist didnt think that the tax was something that will effect their life in huge amounts. They
thought that if the government does this this is taking their say in what happens in the government.

The people only started rebelling and creating boycotts because they thought they lost there say in
what the governments final decisions were.

E. Explore (Analysis)
The government should not be allowed to take away the peoples say in the government like I said
before the people elected the government and they should do what the people want.
Locke also believed that the government was made to protect and maintain human natural rights and the
government isnt doing that, the colonists do have the right to rebel and they should. If the government that the
people created isnt doing what it was created to do they should start over and elect a new government. In
conclusion the people have the right to rebel and start a new government and hope to not make the same
mistake again.