John Locke's Influence On Civil Government

Society began to dispute civil rights and liberty-democracy from the seventeenth. John Locke, an English political philosopher whose working had produced a revolutionary influence to Enlightenment and even established a foundation for modern liberalism. The common understanding of Locke that included his criticism of the authoritarian government and the idea of liberal-democracy, which inspired many thinkers and philosophers on the world. Two Treatises of Government, Locke’s most influential work, which contributed to constitutionalism and provided the original concept of civil government. In this essay, it will describe the Locke’s definition of liberty that included a description of ‘property’, the Lockean social contract with state of natural,

In the modern political philosopher, he was regarded as one of the founders of liberalism due to he recommended the natural rights and liberty of man at the time, and criticized the government’s hegemony. ‘Locke presents this theoretical account as the philosophical basis of individual rights, such as the right to own property and they right to rebel against government, that have enormous practical significance in virtually any conceivable form of political life’ (Lee Ward p65). In addition, as the essay said in preceding paragraphs that Locke expresses that everyone has their own independent property, that is, self-ownership. The freedom and equality advocated in liberalism was inspired by Locke’s ‘self’ concept, self-property is belonging to natural right of man, and this rights are not allowed to be violated. Natural and civil liberty of Locke, among them, Locke’s theory of natural rights included the property that just said, everyone has the right to survive and to avoid the threat of death, and everyone has the right to do what he wants to when it did not violate the first, and everyone has their own wealth. In terms of civil liberty, Locke advocated the abolition of the monarchy, as constitutional monarchy as the government system. He also suggested to decentralization of government power as a limited government, due to the power should come from citizen. Maintain Popular sovereignty and opposed the monarchical divine right, rule of law and everyone is equal under the