Who refuted the 'doctrine of divine and absolute right of monarch'?

John Locke

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Rousseau

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Montesquieu

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Louis XVI

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Solution

The correct option is B John Locke
John Locke was inspired by the humanistic and enlightened viewpoint that all humans are equal. So he refuted the doctrine of the divine and absolute right of the monarch in his book 'Two Treatises of Government'.

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