Okay, not Darwin-Natural, but Locke Natural. Anyways, feel free to ignore this post as it is more for my own clarification and reference point than anything else. Forgive my terrible summation of Lockean theory, as I was merely attempting to simplify it so as to be able to present it in a simple point.
Basically Lockean theory is based on the idea that rights are at the center of all human nature. Also, that all humans have the right to freedoms, and freedom equals equality, and thus all humans must be free and equal and no human can be more free or equal than the other.
On the principles of everyone having rights, and thus freedoms and equality, the government created for this society is two fold, and therefore the politics regarding the situation are centered around the right of freedom and thus, equality.
First of all, the government has no power but what the people give it. Second, the government serves as a guide and only those who consent to be governed may have this government over them — otherwise, they have no power, and if the government does have power which was not previously consented to be given, then that makes humans unequal and therefore it is unnatural.
Furthermore, if the government does not have the consent of the people (for example, if Obama has lost the faith of the American people and thus they withdraw their consent to his governance over them), then the people have the right to revolution. The right to revolution is the act of withdrawing consent from the governing party. It can take place in war, in civil insurrection etc but predominantly, it takes place in a structured form (in modern democratic societies, anyways), i.e. elections.
Thus, revolution is the natural path to recovering the right of humans to freedom and therefore, equality.
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