John Locke

Examples of John Locke in the following topics:

• The American Enlightenment

  • Historians have considered how the ideas of John Locke and republican ideas merged together to form republicanism in the United States.
  • Deism greatly influenced intellectuals and several noteworthy 18th-century Americans, such as John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson.
  • For example, the English political theorist John Locke was a significant source of influence and inspiration to the American intellectual elite.
  • Essentially, Locke claimed that since men created governments, they could also alter or abolish them.
  • John Locke is often credited with the creation of liberalism as a philosophical tradition.

• The Rights of Englishmen

  • The Magna Carta, sealed in 1215 by King John after coercion from an assembly of his barons, is an English charter that limited the power of the king by guaranteeing certain rights, liberties, and privileges to the English aristocracy .
  • For instance, in 1690, John Locke (one of the fathers of the English Enlightenment) wrote that all people have fundamental natural rights to "life, liberty and property," and that governments were created in order to protect these rights.
  • If they did not, according to Locke, the people had a right to alter or abolish their government .
  • Locke's political theory was founded on a social contract theory: that in a state of nature, all people were equal and independent, and everyone had a natural right to defend his "life, health, liberty, or possessions. " However, Locke argued, as it is more rational to live in an organized society where labor is divided and civil conflicts could be decided without violence, governments were established to protect the "life, health, liberty, and possessions" of men.
  • John Locke, often credited for the creation of liberalism as a philosophical tradition.

• The Concept of Civic Duty

  • For instance, in 1690, John Locke (one of the fathers of the English Enlightenment) wrote that all people have fundamental natural rights to "life, liberty and property" and that governments were created in order to protect these rights.
  • If they did not, according to Locke, the people had a right to alter or abolish their government.
  • John Locke is often credited for the creation of liberalism as a philosophical tradition.

• The Founding of Carolina

  • Shaftesbury, with the assistance of his secretary, the philosopher John Locke, drafted the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, a plan for government of the colony.

• The Limits of Democracy

  • The Federalist Papers form a collection of 85 articles and essays by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, promoting ratification of the United States Constitution.
  • The most important influences on the Constitution from the European continent were from Enlightenment thinkers John Locke and Montesquieu.
  • Locke advanced the principle of consent of the governed in his Two Treatises of Government: essentially, government's duty in a social contract with the sovereign people was to serve them by protecting their rights to life, liberty, and property.

• The Political Revolution

  • Historians have considered how the ideas of John Locke and republican ideas merged together to form republicanism in the United States.
  • Deism greatly influenced the thought of intellectuals and Founding Fathers, including John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, perhaps George Washington, and, especially, Thomas Jefferson.

• Women and the Household

  • Much later during the colonial experience, as the values of the American Enlightenment were imported from Britain, the philosophies of such thinkers as John Locke weakened the view that husbands were natural "rulers" over their wives and replaced them with a (slightly) more liberal conception of marriage.

• Classical Liberalism

  • Classical liberalism developed over the course of the 1800s in the United States and Britain and drew upon Enlightenment sources (particularly the works of John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Adam Smith) from the 1700s and 1800s.

• Republican Motherhood

  • The early seeds of the concept are found in the works of John Locke, a notable eighteenth-century philosopher.
  • Contrary to the traditional sexual hierarchy promoted by his contemporaries, Locke believed that men and women had more equal roles in a marriage.
  • Abigail Adams advocated for women's education, as demonstrated in many of her letters to her husband, President John Adams.

• Watergate

  • Gordon Liddy, general counsel to the Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CRP), presented a campaign intelligence plan to CRP's Acting Chairman Jeb Stuart Magruder, Attorney General John Mitchell, and Presidential Counsel John Dean, that involved extensive illegal activities against the Democratic Party.
  • John Mitchell resigned as Attorney General to become chairman of CRP.
  • He returned an hour later and, having discovered that someone had retaped the locks, called the police.
  • The five burglars who broke into the office were tried by Judge John Sirica and convicted on January 30, 1973.
  • On September 29, 1972, it was revealed that John Mitchell, while serving as Attorney General, controlled a secret Republican fund used to finance intelligence-gathering against the Democrats.