Locke died in Oates on October 28, 1704. Locke's Two Treatises of Government (1690) was a well-known and respected document. In the paper, he attacked the theory of diving right of kings and the nature of the state as conceived by the English philosopher and political theorist Thomas Hobbes. He did not believe that a king should become king because "God told him to be", but rather, because he was qualified for the position, and also because the people felt he should be there...
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He did not believe that a king should become king because "God told him to be", but rather, because he was qualified for the position, and also because the people felt he should be there. Locke argued that sovereignty did not reside in the state, but with the people, and that the state is supreme, but only if it is bound by civil and what Locke referred to a "natural" law...
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