Locke saw humans as good, rational, social, cooperative, and tolerant. ... Perhaps his most famous work, The Social Contract, provides a blueprint for the basis of rightful political order within the existing structure of classical republicanism. ... He is also responsible for the creation of the economics metaphor of "the invisible hand" used to describe unintended social benefits that can come from individual actions. ...

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There were many similarities between the causes of the American Revolution in 1776 and the Latin American Wars of Independence beginning in 1810. The main similarities between the two independence movements are essentially economical, political, and ideological. Both the United States and Latin America wanted to end the rule of a mother country whose mercantilist system impeded the development of a growing colonial economy. "The goal of mercantilism was the creation of a self-sufficient empire from which foreign trade and commerce were excluded; the domination of vital trade routes; and the a...

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