In his Second Treatise of Civil Government, John Locke stated that "it is not without reason the [man] seeks out and is willing to join in society with others who are already united, or have a mind to unite for the mutual preservation of their lives, liberties, and estates, which I call by the general name - property." ... Based upon the fundamental ideals described by Locke and Madison, Charles Beard, in his essay Framing the Constitution, asserts that the framers of our Constitution were anxious, above everything else, to protect the rights of private property against any leveling tendencies...

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The controversies of this period produced one of the classics of liberal thinking, Areopagitica (1644), a treatise by the poet and prose writer John Milton in which he advocated freedom of thought and expression. ... An influential early liberal was the English philosopher John Locke. ... Thomas Jefferson also echoed Locke in the Declaration of Independence and in later pronouncements defending revolutions, attacking paternalistic government, and upholding free expression of unpopular opinions. In France, Locke's philosophy was taken over by the leaders of the French Enlightenment, notab...

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Cunningham & Flew (2000) De-westernising Australia?: Media Systems and Cultural coordinates in: J. Curran & M-J Park (Eds.), "De-westernising Media Studies". London and New York: Routledge, pp 237-248. What evidence is there that the author(s) of your chosen reading are influenced by the ideas ...

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