English Civil War and Glorious Revolution followed the Dutch revolt against Spain as the second of the Western Revolutions that ended absolute monarchy and finally led to democratic representative government. As tradition had it that the English leaders in 1641-49 and 1688-89 that their acts were revolutionary. Parliament chopped of the head of one king and replaced him by another because of the traditional “liberties of England.” Statesmen and pamphleteers arguing for royalist, parliamentary, or …showed first 75 words of 787 total…

…showed last 75 words of 787 total…views of human nature than Hobbes. Locke believed in natural rights allowing to limit the power of the government, emphasized that property is the basis of all freedom, and that a government that acted without consent, went against the contract and gave the right to the subjects to revolution. Above all, he believed that the citizens followed the rights of a region and in return the government was a contract that provided them with security.