POLITICAL HERITAGE

JOHN LOCKE

JEFFERSON

SIMILARITIES

• They both believed Life,liberty,and pursuit of happiness
• Believed in democracy
• Citizen have the right to overthrow gov
• Believed that the Gov should save and protect people
• Believed in people's rights

SUMMARY

• Both had influences on how gov works today and believed that all men are created equal The natural, law of man is not under the authority. Locke says human have natural rights of life. And states that no one person is inferior to one another man.

QUTOES

• Sec. 6. But though this be a state of liberty, yet it is not a state of Licence. . .The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions
• Sec. 4. To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.
• Sec. 214. First, That when such a single person, or prince, sets up his own arbitrary will in plac

QUOTES

• Sec. 215. Secondly, When the prince hinders the legislative from assembling in its due time, or from acting freely,
• Sec. 216. Thirdly, When, by the arbitrary power of the prince, the electors, or ways of election, are altered, without the consent, and contrary to the common interest of the people,