CHAPTER 13
LESSON ELEVEN: AUTHORITY TO GOVERN
What gave the colonists the legal or moral right to resist new taxes from the British crown? What gives anyone the right to govern anyone else? Do kings rule by right divine in the late 1700s? Or are there other criteria that give leaders the right to ex- ercise authority over others?Do people have to consent to be governed ---perhaps by voting? These are the ideas that Enlightenment thinkers wrestled with ---and that the “Founding Fathers”--and Mothers---contemplated at the time of the revo- lution. How are these ideas relevant to the issue of who “owns” America?”
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