John Locke

The political theory that God selects the monarch and therefore all should obey. Locke dismissed this idea.

• divine right of kings

• papal authority

• Godly guidance in governance

• social contract theory

The political theory that the government should be all-powerful, or nearly all-powerful. Thomas Hobbes supported this idea; John Locke rejected it.

• reductivism

• constitutionalism

• divine right of kings

• absolutism

John Locke supported the right of the people to do this if government failed to protect natural rights.

• revolution

• continue to obey

• petition

• emigration

Latin for "blank slate," the term describes John Locke's idea of the human mind at birth.

• in vino veritas

• tabula rasa

• arjuna

• bindu

If one does this with a property, especially land, one loses the right of ownership, according to Locke.

• hold wild parties

• waste

• intentionally burn the vegetation

• flood it to create ponds

According to John Locke, these are given by God and cannot be taken by the government. The protection of these is the purpose of the government.

• divine rights

• systemic rights

• natural rights

• preternatural rights

John Locke believed in God as this, reasoning that there must be an "unmoved mover" that set in motion the chain of cause and effect.

• first cause

• alternate reality

• event horizon

• event zero

He was influenced by the ideas of John Locke.

• Thomas Hobbes

• Thomas Jefferson

• Machiavelli

• Plato

John Locke wrote this book around 1689 to explain his opposition to the divine right of kings and uphold his version of the social contract theory.

• The Prince

• Leviathan

• Two Treatises on Government

• The Social Contract

The influence of John Locke is clear in this document, although he died in 1704 and this document was written in 1776.

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Communist Manifesto

• The U.S. Constitution

• The Social Contract