Allen: You’re a John Locke expert and you have just written ... as they were crafting many of those documents that became the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, that really founded ...

Armed with the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence ... tradition dating back to the English political theorist John Locke, who famously argued that government was instituted for the ...

At the heart of his argument was the political thought of one of Britain’s most celebrated philosophers: John Locke ... are drawn from the heart of our constitution,” Camden explained ...

The Constitution doesn’t grant us freedoms ... derived from the consent of the governed was first articulated by John Locke in his 1690 “Second Treatise of Government,” in which he wrote ...

They inherited it from British history and from two seminal books, Algernon Sidney’s “Discourses Concerning Government” and John Locke’s “Two Treatises of Government,” published in ...

We know John Locke today as a social and political philosopher ... “Some men by the unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest, tractable ...