Right of revolution
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In political philosophy, the right of revolution or right of rebellion is the right or duty of a people to "alter or abolish" a government that acts against their common interests or threatens the saf
The Roman Republic was established following the overthrow of the Roman monarchy.
Magna Carta marks one of the earliest attempts to limit a sovereign's authority and it is seen as a symbol of the rule of law.
Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality argues in favour of the right of revolution against despots.
John Stuart Mill was a proponent of the right to revolution in the name of liberty.
Natural law
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Natural law is a philosophical and legal theory that posits the existence of inherent laws derived from nature and universal moral principles that are discoverable through reason. In ethics, natural l
Right of revolution
…and Juan de Mariana, were widely known and often feared for advocating resistance to tyranny and often tyrannicide—one of the implications of the natural law focus of the School of Salamanca. John Calvin believed something similar. In a commentary on the Book of Daniel, he observed that contemporary monarchs…
Thomas Aquinas, whose integration of Aristotelian philosophy with Christian theology established the foundational principles of natural law, influencing Western concepts of justice and ethics
Plato (left) and Aristotle (right), a detail of The School of Athens, a fresco by Raphael
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Thomas Hobbes