@Amigo,
John Locke was an Englishman born about 100 years b4 George Washington.
His thawts were very influential in both the American Declaration of Independence
and in the US Constitution, having been adopted by the Founders.
Most significantly, he argued that human existence preceded the existence of government.
B4 government was brawt into existence, it had no power nor authority.
Men living in the state of Nature, found a need to defend their property
from the raids of others and found a need to avenge outrages
against person or property that were perpetrated upon them.
Thay found that thay had greater strength in numbers of them
banded together to repel raids and to chase down local bad guys
to avenge their misconduct; therefore, by contract among themselves,
thay created government as their agent for repelling those raids
and for executing vengeance upon local malefactors.
That government was limited in its power only to the power
that its creators had granted to it; anything beyond that was
USURPATION, and with no authority. If the social contract
between citizen and government were violated by government,
the employee of the citizen, then the citizenry had the right
or even the duty, to revolt against their employee, government.
This is part of the general essence of John Locke 's
2nd Treatise of Civil Government,
according to my memory thereof; its been a few decades since
I read that book. I hope that my memory is reasonably accurate.
There is much, much more that coud be said of John Locke,
but I 'm much, much too lazy to say it and going to get some more sleep now.
