Baseline philosophy that the Founders all read and understood, and is the basis for the concept of inalienable rights expressed in the Declaration of Independence.
Locke is very dry. In one of my Philosophy classes in college we had to part of the Two Treaties, something I really wanted to read at that time (I was majoring in Political Science), and really wanted to like Locke. I wanted to rip my eyes out, Besides if you want to get in to Social Contract Theory of Governance you should start off with either Plato's Apology of Socrates or Hobbes' The Leviathan both of which are considered the start of the idea of the Social Contract, Plato's kind of indirectly, Hobbes' directly.
Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke
Baseline philosophy that the Founders all read and understood, and is the basis for the concept of inalienable rights expressed in the Declaration of Independence.
Locke is very dry. In one of my Philosophy classes in college we had to part of the Two Treaties, something I really wanted to read at that time (I was majoring in Political Science), and really wanted to like Locke. I wanted to rip my eyes out, Besides if you want to get in to Social Contract Theory of Governance you should start off with either Plato's Apology of Socrates or Hobbes' The Leviathan both of which are considered the start of the idea of the Social Contract, Plato's kind of indirectly, Hobbes' directly.