Jon Locke

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…prevent Charles II from having absolute power was one reason Locke wrote the Two Treatises. Locke wanted it known that people were born with equal rights, also he wrote of property. If a man put his labor into something, Locke thought it was his to use. When man gets to numerous, and land gets scarce however, a civil society delegates individuals to enforce law, and gives them the authority to enforce the laws it creates.