After revolted against the monarchy in Great Britain they desired a different form of government, …show more content…
"Natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope", Patrick Henry spoke that the king in charge gave them an illusion that things will get better even though nothing will change. The king had a huge streak of only caring for himself especially known for taxing greatly on his people. The king ruled greatly but his idea of freedom wasn 't actually freedom when he decides for the people, Patrick Henry who has high notably patriotism of the United States which was stated in his speech knew that the king wasn 't unjustly to them by giving them high taxes. "Who,having eyes,see not, and, having ears, hear not the thugs which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?" Patrick Henry concluded that their government which was ruled by the king made them weak and disposable if they did any wrong. The king wanted his people to love him but will eliminate the ones who thought of him lower than what he expected them to think of him. Patrick Henry wanted out the United States slavery to Great Britain. The Kings resorts in "fleets and armies to a work of love and reconciliation", which meant they have to put a fight before letting the king lose to them. The king wants them to be submissive on the idea of them to revolt against him. "Shall we try argument? Sir", the United States have been trying for …show more content…
An idealist knew that the government should be in charge because people are naturally wicked and shouldn 't be allowed to govern. Thomas Hobbes had written about his ideal way of government in a section called chapter xii of the natural condition of mankind as concerning their felicity and misery. "One man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he". Hobbes wrote that men are created equal some men can use any strength to get them higher than their equals. "Strength of body, the weakest has strength enough to kill the strongest, either by secret machination or by confederacy with others that are in the same danger with himself". Speaking like before this meant that knowledge or domination by strength and brawn can make a man superior from his equals maybe almost threatening? Thomas Hobbes idea was that if a man who had knowledge but no brawn he can kill off his equal who had brawn but no knowledge because he will use his knowledge against the brawn and use it to get his other equals to come join him to attack the brawn. A man can lock all his valuables from the whole world even though there are laws and public officers that are armed who will "revenge all injuries shall be done him". In America some places with savages have no government which fails because they live in a "brutish