Use the following excerpt from John Locke's Second Treatise of Civil Government (1690) to answer the question below:

"But though this be a state of liberty, yet it is not a state of licence: though man in that state have an uncontroulable liberty to dispose of his person or possessions, yet he has not liberty to destroy himself, or so much as any creature in his possession, but where some nobler use than its bare preservation calls for it. 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 i

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Use the following excerpt from John Locke's Second Treatise of Civil Government (1690) to answer the question below:

"But though this be a state of liberty, yet it is not a state of licence: though man in that state have an uncontroulable liberty to dispose of his person or possessions, yet he has not liberty to destroy himself, or so much as any creature in his possession, but where some nobler use than its bare preservation calls for it. 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 i

anonymous · Answer

that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions: for men being all the workmanship of one omnipotent, and infinitely wise maker."—Public Domain

Which one of the following thinkers was influenced most by this statement?

Mary Wollstonecraft 

Thomas Jefferson 

Thomas Hobbes 

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

anonymous · Answer

@Lady.Liv1776

anonymous · Answer

Thomas Jefferson. he was a HUGE fan of Locke (HUGE). In fact, when he wrote the declaration of independence, he practically copied Locke's work.