Examples Of The Glorious Revolution

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“Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the gun down” -Malcolm X. I’m certain that every sane person reading this has never wanted to literally kill someone. We all joke around saying “I’m going to kill you!!” but obviously, we never actually do. What if that actually meant something? What if we really are going to kill you? This has happened many times in this course of human events; and it is by no means wrong to have such serious thoughts. This is not only on the singular person scale, but on a much larger scale comparable to countries going to war. Now don’t go thinking that you can go off murdering whoever you want; your reason for murder has to be in the interest of others. This is often times a last resort for resolving many conflicts, …show more content…
One specific example of this scenario is during the “Glorious Revolution” in England. King James II attempted earnestly to convert every citizen to catholicism, which in turn caused uproar. The most citizens of England refused the Catholic religion, so William of Orange, from the Netherlands, brought an army of troops to force King James out of power, and it was successful (7Raul7). Once again, we see force as an effective strategy to rid impure leaders or rule. Along with the Glorious Revolution, we see this use of force and murder again in the French Revolution. “There was not one action in rural life that did not require the peasants to pay a ransom.” This was said by a common man in the third estate of France by the name of Jean Jaures, who expresses his opinion that the first and second estates economic power over the third, is unlawful. Absolute Monarchy was rising in France, so the third estate commoners stormed the bastille, killing many and taking weapons and valuables (Walters). This caused the first and second estates to oblige and just goes to show that murder can indeed ameliorate your economic opportunity. Finally, the best example of revolt against an unlawful government is our own country during the American Revolution. King George III of England was in power during the resentment of the colonists in the 1760s-1770s. The cause of the resentment was because of the unfair taxing of the colonists across the Atlantic. Laws such as the Tea Act and Stamp Act made the colonists economically suffer. This caused the colonist to break away from England and fight for their independence. After hardship and war, we achieved our freedom after starting a virtuous. Just think how different our world would be if we were still under British Parliament. In summary, the Glorious, French, and American Revolution all prove that war and killing people can

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