Locke believed that individuals had given consent to government and therefore authority derived from the people rather than from above.

Unlike Aquinas ' preponderant view on the salvation of the soul from original sin, Locke believed man comes into this world with a mind that is basically a tabula rasa.

Traditionally scholars believed this American republicanism was a derivation of the liberal ideologies of John Locke and others developed in Europe.

Grotius posited that individual human beings had natural rights ; Hobbes asserted that men consent to abdicate their rights in favor of the absolute authority of government ( whether monarchial or parliamentary ); Pufendorf disputed Hobbes's equation of a state of nature with war ; Locke believed that natural rights were inalienable, and that the rule of God therefore superseded government authority ; and Rousseau believed that democracy ( self-rule ) was the best way of ensuring the general welfare while maintaining individual freedom under the rule of law.

Concerning " free will ", most early modern philosophers, including Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke and Hume believed that the term was frequently used in a wrong or illogical sense, and that the philosophical problems concerning any difference between " will " and " free will " are due to verbal confusion ( because all will is free ):

Locke always believed in good sense — not pushing things to extremes and on taking fully into account the plain facts of the matter.

Alain Locke wrote in his foreword to the literary collection The New Negro, “ We turn therefore in the other direction to the elements of truest social portraiture … we shall let the Negro speak for himself .” Locke believed that African Americans lived in a world with political realities, and thus needed to respond with a deliberate politics in their work.

" Thomas Jefferson believed Sidney and Locke to be the two primary sources for the Founding Fathers ' view of liberty.

Although, Stephenson usually gets the credit for this feat, it is believed that it was Locke who suggested the correct method for crossing the bog.

Locke, on the other hand, believed that they underestimated the power of the latest locomotives and that the shortest practicable route should be chosen, even if it involved some steep gradients.

Locke believed, on the other hand, that men on the whole are more good than wicked and, accordingly, the area for individual liberty can be left rather at large.

White, a disciple of John Locke, believed that the church, like the state, should be a democracy.

Using thinking similar to that of English philosopher John Locke, the founders of the United States believed in a state built upon the consent of " free and equal " citizens ; a state otherwise conceived would lack legitimacy and legal authority.

Marx believed that the extension of the Labor Theory of Value ( the theory of value used by Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, etc.

The Sheffield people, in lobbying for the line to enter their city, engaged Joseph Locke, who believed lines should pass through towns, proceeding along hills, if necessary, with bridges, embankments and cuttings.

" In other words, contrary to the traditional sexual hierarchy promoted by his contemporary Robert Filmer and others, Locke believed that men and women had more equal roles in a marriage.

Ben told Locke that the man, Desmond, had told him that he was trying to get Locke to " let go ," not to hurt him, and that for some reason he believed Desmond.

Notable individuals whose ideas have contributed to classical liberalism include John Locke, Jean-Baptiste Say, Thomas Malthus, and David Ricardo.

Although Locke did not develop a theory of natural rights, he envisioned individuals in the state of nature as being free and equal.

Locke and Mill also argued that we cannot define individuals.

Locke argued that individuals would agree to form a state that would provide a " neutral judge ", acting to protect the lives, liberty, and property of those who lived within it.

Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau were the most influential thinkers of this school, all postulating that individuals choose to enter into a social contract with one another, thus voluntarily giving up some of their natural freedom in return for protection from dangers derived from the freedom of others.

* Pre-Romanticism ( end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century ): The influence of the English philosopher John Locke, together with that of the French Étienne Bonnot of Condillac, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Denis Diderot, will cause a new feeling, dissatisfaction with the tyranny of reason, that emphasizes the right of the individuals to express their personal emotions ( repressed then by the neoclassicals ), among which figures fundamentally love.

In support of this argument he presents three main reasons: ( 1 ) individuals, according to Locke, cannot divest control over their souls to secular forces, as God does not appoint the magistrate ; ( 2 ) force cannot create the change necessary for salvation, because while it can coerce obedience, it cannot change one's beliefs ; and ( 3 ) even if coercion could persuade someone of a notion, it would not help for the salvation of the soul, because then birth would be related with salvation.

John Locke had, meanwhile, introduced the phrase " Association of Ideas " as the title of a supplementary chapter incorporated with the fourth edition of his Essay, meaning it, however, only as the name of a principle accounting for the mental peculiarities of individuals, with little or no suggestion of its general psychological import.

Locke, along with other concerned individuals, wanted to link protected wildlife areas to each other so that wildlife species – especially wide ranging mammals like grizzly bears – could move safely between them.

Inspired by John Locke, the fundamental constitutional principle is that the individual can do anything but that which is forbidden by law, while the state may do nothing but that which is authorized by law.

Locke held that the individual had the right to follow his own religious beliefs and that the state should not impose a religion against Dissenters.

Locke turned Hobbes ' prescription around, saying that if the ruler went against natural law and failed to protect " life, liberty, and property ," people could justifiably overthrow the existing state and create a new one.

In it Locke proposes a state of nature theory that directly complements his conception of how political development occurs and how it can be founded through contractual obligation.

Unlike Machiavelli and Hobbes but like Aquinas, Locke would accept Aristotle's dictum that man seeks to be happy in a state of social harmony as a social animal.

* John Locke: Like Hobbes, described a social contract theory based on citizens ' fundamental rights in the state of nature.

John Locke, on the other hand, who gave us Two Treatises of Government and who did not believe in the divine right of kings either, sided with Aquinas and stood against both Machiavelli and Hobbes by accepting Aristotle's dictum that man seeks to be happy in a state of social harmony as a social animal.

The use of the state of nature to imagine the origins of government, as by Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, may also be considered a thought experiment.

Locke argued in Two Treatises of Government that the individual placed some of his rights present in the state of nature in trusteeship with the sovereign ( government ) in return for protection of certain natural individual rights.

Locke Township is a civil township of Ingham County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

* Fillmore Glen State Park – A state park partly in Locke at the north town line.

* Fillmore Glen State Park – The state park in the northwest of the town ( and in the Town of Locke ) contains a replica of Millard Fillmore's birthplace.

In Rawls's theory, Justice as Fairness, the original position plays the role that the state of nature does in the classical social contract tradition of Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and John Locke.

It was Locke, who, in his Letter Concerning Toleration, defined the state in purely secular terms: " The commonwealth seems to me to be a society of men constituted only for the procuring, preserving, and advancing their own civil interests.

" With this treatise, John Locke laid one of the most important intellectual foundations of the separation of church and state, which ultimately led to the secular state.

John Locke in his Essays on the Law of Nature argued that the widespread fact of human conscience allowed a philosopher to infer the necessary existence of objective moral laws that occasionally might contradict those of the state.

This influenced Locke to forge a social contract theory of a limited state and a powerful society.

In Locke ’ s view, human beings led also an unpeaceful life in the state of nature.

In this section, Paine also attacks one type of " mixed state " the constitutional monarchy promoted by John Locke in which the powers of government are separated between a Parliament or Congress that makes the laws, and a monarch who executes them.

* Orrin Wiley Locke, state senator from Orleans County