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John Loce's Political views By: Paul O'Neal  In essence, John Locke's views were very simple but to the point. His views were the basis for many major political documents across the board in the recent history of the world. It started with the English Bill of Rights and followed with things such as the American Constitution and the Declaration of the Rights of Men in France. He belbelieved that every man was born free and had three basic rights to life, liberty, and property. In these beliefs he meant that the government couldn't give cruel and unusual punishments and that the everyone had an equal right to better their life and that the government couldn't take their life without probable cause. Liberty meant that one could freely express one's self and live a free life without the government hampering ones life. Property was that everyone had the right to gain property and succeed by one's self. He also believed that government could not start a war without just cause and that a war was not officially over until all sides of the war came to a common ground. One thing that John Locke stressed was Tabula Rasa. Tabula Rasa means blank slate in latin. This was his theory on human nature. He believed that humans were born neutral and were effected by the events around them in the world and would sway them towards good or evil. He believed that humans were able to govern themselves but they could not successfully judge themselves because there would be preferences “if a man could hurt his own brother, then how can we expect him to properly punish himself for the crime he committed?” He believed that humans would lean to much toword oneself and not give himself a proper punishment and the same goes for with someone they have strong connections with. Here is a video of what a commercial he would be in would be like []. and here is one of his books if you wish to read some of the mans works by yourself: []

Resources: Uzgalis, William. John Locke. Published to __[|http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lockeKamerling, Garth John Locke.Publishedto]

[] __ Kelly, Mellisa John Locke's human nature. 2009 __[]__     Moseley, Alexander Political Philosophy of John Locke. April 4, 2005   Landry, Peter 1997  __[]__ __[]__