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Examine the nature and limits of the rights of Resistance and Revolution recognised in modern political theory.

  • UPSC 1997
  • Democracy

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A right of resistance makes political obligation conditional: citizens may oppose a government that breaks the terms on which it holds power. Revolution is its extreme form, overthrowing the government or the whole order. Modern theory moved from denial, through John Locke's conditional licence, to disciplined dissent within constitutional democracy, adding limits at each step.

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  • Nature: From Denial to Licence
  • Nature: Disciplined Resistance
  • Limits
  • Indian Illustration
  • Conclusion
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