Locke's defence of natural rights to life, liberty, and property, and of government by consent that may be overthrown if it betrays its trust. It deeply influenced liberal democracy and the American founding.
Sources for John Locke — Two Treatises of Government
John Locke — Two Treatises of Government in Governance & Society
Held in the Governance & Society chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Aristotle — Politics (−350)
- Cicero — De Re Publica (On the Commonwealth) (−54)
- Cicero — De Legibus (On the Laws) (−52)
- Kautilya — Arthashastra (−300)
- Machiavelli — The Prince (1532)
- Plato — The Republic (−380)
- Thomas Hobbes — Leviathan (1651)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau — The Social Contract (1762)
- Thomas Paine — Common Sense (1776)
- Thomas Paine — Rights of Man (1791)
- Alexis de Tocqueville — Democracy in America (1835)
- John Stuart Mill — On Liberty (1859)