1. John Locke's Second Treatise
Locke justifies liberty often in chapters three and four, and his idea of social liberty was very influential to the United States. ... And this judgment they cannot part with, it being out of a man's power so to submit himself to another, as to give him a liberty to destroy him; God and nature never allowing a man so to abandon himself, as to neglect his own preservation" (P.93). One of Locke's most intriguing chapters is Chapter 5, on property. ... In Chapter eleven John Locke calls legislature the supreme power in the government. ... Lockes writing in the last chapters becom...
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