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Write approximately 150 words on Locke’s views on Revolution.

  • UPSC 2024
  • 10 marks
  • Western Political Thought

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John Locke sets out the right of resistance in chapter XIX, "Of the Dissolution of Government", of the Second Treatise (1689). Peter Laslett dated most of the text to 1679–80, the Exclusion Crisis. It was therefore a case for resisting Charles II and his Catholic heir, not an apology written after 1688.

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