Who was John Locke and what did he have to do with the US government?

October 15, 2010

Posted by susanne

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Hi RozaSydney,

John Locke was a famous philosopher of the late seventeenth and the early eighteenth centuries. He was also an Oxford scholar, medical researcher and physician, political operative, economist and spokesman for a revolutionary movement.

John Locke believed that all people have natural rights from birth such as life, liberty and property.

He vociferously spoke out against the divine right of kings and argued that governments should rely upon the consent of the people.

Locke outlined the aims and purposes of the State in his “Two Treatises of Government”; these are reflected in the United States Declaration of Independence.

By the time of the American Revolution, Locke's principles and philosophies were well known and deeply embedded into American political thought.

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