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Agreement among individuals forming society

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Two Treatises of Government

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event 1689

Foundational work of liberal political philosophy establishing natural rights, the social contract, and the right to revolution against tyrannical ...

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Locke, John

English philosopher and physician, key figure of the Enlightenment, foundational thinker on natural rights and government by consent

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