Every democrat, ever?
I’m pretty sure that King George didn’t believe we had that right. And no standing government believes in the right to revolt. Even here in the U.S. there are laws against plotting the overthrow of the government.
Sam Adams?
Do your own work. Tom Sawyer and the fence comes to mind
Romans 13
Hitler, Stalin Mao, Castro. They disarmed their populations and then the genocides began.
Don’t know of a specific individual, but to give you a point in the right direction you have to consider what is the basis for Locke’s assertion to a right of rebellion. i.e., natural law. So you have to find someone who rejects natural law. Perhaps someone who views the right of rebellion merely as an aspect of social contract. You might try Hobbes.
Do a Google search on “arguments against the revolutionary war”.
Why not find and thread through the arguments of the Continental Congresses, as well as the individual letters between various members, to find where they really stood, since some of them were not, at the start, in favor of rebellion, themselves.
King James I of England and the supporters of the Restoration of the Monarch after Charles I was beheaded would provide some information on those opposed to uprisings against the king. James said he would harry the Puritans out of the land, but a few decades later, the English supporters of Cromwell had gained the upper hand, and Great Britain almost had a constitution.
James I created a new Bible, because he didn’t like the notes about the king in the Geneva Bible that was used by the Puritans. The Pilgrims who came here in 1620 carried the Geneva Bible.
The Puritans believed in good government and the ability to ‘revolt.’ You might need to clarify the difference between a true ‘Revolution’ and a ‘Reaction.’ Some people think the American Revolution was more of the latter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex,_Rex
Lex Rex would have been well known among the Puritans. This paved the way for John Locke.
All revolution is anti-government. Those who oppose revolution are those who support the perpetual expansion of government.
You might consider using Aristotle as a pro government, anti revolution advocate. He believed that government must be stabilized according to certain principles as a response to revolutionary sentiment. This will ground your paper in classical thought. Move from there to Hobbes and Nietzsche.
Good luck.
Robin Hood
Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke rejected the appeal made by the revolutionaries to abstract individual rights. For Burke the important contrast is not between repressive governments and the abstract rights of the rational individual, but between the beautiful order of society bonded by loyalties and prejudice and a disbanded race of deserters and vagabonds.
I suggest perusing Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France. Burke is generally regarded as the father of conservatism and while sympathetic to American grievances with the Crown, he took a dim view of overthrowing governments.
A possible idea to explore:
Establishment Christian doctrine was greatly at odds with supporting the American colonial revolutionary movement.
One side extolled God commands obedience to the King he allowed to be in power, versus the opposing minister’s who preached the parallel analogy of God’s people having a right to escape tyranny (Moses leading Jews out of Egypt).
This same religious division arose during early labor union formation in the 1890’s thru 1930’s. Respecting master - slave / servant worker relationship in spite of poor pay and work conditions, versus rejecting that old biblical premise in favor of supporting of socialist labor rights of the worker for revolution, espoused by Engel, Marx and Lenin.
The Loyalists were colonists who were against the Revolution. These were mostly exiled of fled the USA after the war. History doesn't much care what they had to say or think.
At least 40 US presidents have been against the right to revolution.
I would use both Lincoln and Obama.
The Divine Right of Kings is contrary to lockes natural law. Look there,