CEVAP:

According to their writings, citizens were entitled to freedoms available through natural law. They said that government should assure that these freedoms were available to citizens in an unwritten social contract that claimed each citizen would benefit from state protection. In return, citizens should support the government and its rules. On the other side of the agreement citizens had the individual right to rebel against a government that denied these natural freedoms. This suggests an active role for the individual to participate one way or another to influence behavior of government in order to assure freedoms found in nature.