... exploitation, Locke presents an ascending theory about the state of nature, where everything is in common use and individuals have equal rights; where only by investing labour, property can become private and there is no need of consent of others to do so; and to protect that property in a later stage people enter into a social contract by delegating their power to the state. The Two Treatises of the Government was written by John Locke primarily to counter particular questions of government and property raised by Sir Robert Filmer in Patriarcha, where Filmer claimed that submission to patriarchal authority was the key to political obligation. According to Filmer, the family is the natural form of government and that states are developed from it. He believed that kings have divine rights and this belief was based on the religious argument that the ruler's right derived from Adam, who was given ...

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