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How Did John Locke Influence The Second Practice Of Government

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Founders were also influenced by John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government where the idea of natural rights were introduced. John Locke believed all men were born with the natural rights of life, liberty, and property. The Second Treatise of Government states, “all men is are naturally in: a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions as persons as they think fit… a state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is mutual.” By saying this the government cannot take away what the man was originally born with. The founding fathers agreed with John Locke’s philosophy and wanted to be able to protect these rights. The Second Treatise of Government also talked about tyranny it stated, “as usurpation
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