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-redefined the nature of government
- ruler gains authority through the consent of the governed
-he believed in the basic rights of life, liberty, and property

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https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke-political/

https://www.biography.com/people/john-locke-9384544

http://oll.libertyfund.org/people/john-locke

http://www.ushistory.org/gov/2.asp

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views on government, ideas of government and freedoms

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views on government, ideas of government and freedoms

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-men are naturally "free and equal"
-he believed that people have rights, such as the right to life, liberty, and property, that have a foundation independent of the laws
-governments that fail to protect the rights of the people and promote the public good, can be resisted and replaced with new governments

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-"Two Treatises of Government" he rejects the idea of the divine right of kings
-he also argues for a limited constitutional government which would protect individual rights.

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education:
-Westminster school
-University of Oxford where he studied medicine, logic, metaphysics, classical language, and masters in art

influences:
-mother and father were puritans
-Lord Ashley, who was to become Earl of Shaftesbury, he was his assistant