Three-year-old Micah thinks his father turned into a monster when he put on a clown mask. Micah's inability to grasp that a person's core self stays the same despite changes in appearance shows he is too young to understand:

Identity Constancy

Explanation:

According to Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development, identity constancy is the pre-operational  inability of a child to grasp the fact that a persons core self remains the same regardless of changes in the physical appearance.

This is the case displayed in the above question. Micah is unable to grasp the fact that his father is still the same man he was, regardless of the fact that he put on a clown mask.

Identity constancy

Explanation:

Identity constancy

The preoperational child's inability to grasp that a person's core self stays the same despite changes in external appearance.

Micah's inability to grasp that a person's core self stays the same despite changes in appearance shows he is too young to understand identity constancy because when his dad put on the clown mask Micah thought his father had turned into a monster.

classical republicanism, also known as civic humanism, is a form of republicanism  developed in the renaissance inspired by the governmental forms and writings of  classical  antiquity, especially such  classical  writers as aristotle, polybius, and cicero.

it is a part of john locke's natural rights popular during the age of enlightenment that people had inalienable rights to life, liberty and property. this was reflected by thomas jefferson in his declaration of independence as rights to life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

another line in the declaration of independence is that people have certain rights just because they are human. humans are capable of obeying the three natural rights john locke mentioned making them governable by these laws and therefore entitled to these rights as well.