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  2. Two Treatises of Government - Wikipedia

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    The Latter Is an Essay Concerning The True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government) is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise attacks patriarchalism in the form of sentence-by-sentence refutation of Robert Filmer 's Patriarcha , while the Second Treatise outlines Locke's ideas for a ...

  3. Two Tracts on Government - Wikipedia

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    Two Tracts on Government is a work of political philosophy written from 1660 to 1662 by John Locke but remained unpublished until 1967. It bears a similar name to a later, more famous, political philosophy work by Locke, namely Two Treatises of Government. The two works, however, have very different positions. [clarification needed]

  4. Bill of Rights 1689 - Wikipedia

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    Largely based on the ideas of political theorist John Locke, [3] the Bill sets out a constitutional requirement for the Crown to seek the consent of the people as represented in Parliament. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] As well as setting limits on the powers of the monarch , it established the rights of Parliament, including regular parliaments, free elections ...

  5. Grievances of the United States Declaration of Independence

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    The Massachusetts Assembly passed a law in 1770 for taxing Government officers in that colony, but the King ordered the governor to withhold his assent. Thus, the King violated the colonial charter and showed the little power of the colonies. [3] "Neglect" is one of two reasons mentioned by John Locke as a valid reason for a dissolved ...

  6. Natural rights and legal rights - Wikipedia

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    Starting with the civil rights movement, and continuing through women's rights, Locke's call for a fair government can be seen as the influence in these movements. His ideas are typically just seen as the foundation for modern democracy; however, it is not unreasonable to credit Locke with the social activism throughout the history of America.

  7. Social contract - Wikipedia

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    John Locke's Second Treatise of Government (1689) John Locke 's conception of the social contract differed from Hobbes' in several fundamental ways, retaining only the central notion that persons in a state of nature would willingly come together to form a state.

  8. Resistance theory in the early modern period - Wikipedia

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    John Locke's Two Treatises of Government, written at the time of the Exclusion Crisis but published after the Glorious Revolution, went back to the Calvinist resistance theory as in George Buchanan. Algernon Sidney like Locke replied to the Patriarcha of Robert Filmer, and provided a thorough animadversion. [25]

  9. Right of revolution - Wikipedia

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    Locke said that under natural law, all people have the right to life, liberty, and private property; under the social contract, the people could instigate a revolution against the government when it acted against the interests of citizens, to replace the government with one that served the interests of citizens. In some cases, Locke saw ...