“There can be no judge on Earth” of when this power is used rightly, so “the people have no other remedy… but to appeal to heaven.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this term, discussed in a treatise’s fourteenth chapter, that refers to “the people’s permitting their rulers to do several things… where the law was silent, and sometimes too against the direct letter of the law.”
ANSWER: prerogative [accept “Of Prerogative”]
[10e] This philosopher seemingly granted the infinite power of prerogative to the executive in a treatise that advocated for a social contract to protect the people’s life, liberty, and property.
ANSWER: John Locke
[10m] This philosopher listed 27 kinds of “prerogative instances” in which one can employ the “eliminative” form of a method that’s sometimes named for him. This philosopher used that method in “First Vintage of the Form of Heat.”
ANSWER: Francis Bacon [accept Baconian method]
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