According to Rousseau, people give up some of their liberty and property to exchange for protection from the government, in what is called a social contract. But sometimes there comes a time, when the government becomes so corrupt, so dishonorable, so abominable, that it is beyond repair. Then the people havve a right to take up arms against their monarch, for the betterment of their lives and the lives of others. In a revolution, many times there is no way to avoid bloodshed. Do the ends ever justify the means? And the truth is, that maybe they did at the time, and now the country is worse off than before. But to ask if a revolution is a help or a hindrance, then you should look at the event and the immediate results. Was the government better …show more content…
The colonists were not getting an equal say in their government and were being taxed unfairly. Since they lived across the ocean, it only seemed rational that after trying to reason with the king to no avail, that they sever their ties with England and form a new government. A government where all people had equal say and where they were free to worship God in the way that they believed. They wrote the declaration of independence, signed it, and sent it off to England, hoping that it would be over without a single shot. When it became evident that they were not going to get the peaceful secession that they wished for Benjamin Franklin said, " We must all hang together, or assuredly we will hang separately." He was concerned for the welfare of those around him and knew that if they flew in fifty directions like a scattered flock of birds, that not only would they fail, but they would die in the process. He knew that they needed to stick together through thick and thin. A man called John Parker said, " Don't fire on them unless fired upon." It was clear that the Americans didn't want to kill those that they had once considered their fellow country men, and so while there was still bloodshed, it could have been much worse. And once the war was over, all though it took longer than they thought and was harder than they expected, they tried their best to give everybody an equal vote in the way of