1. THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETIES: THREE APPROACHES
... the popular views of Locke, Tocqueville, and Marx. Of his most famous writings, Locke's Two Treatises of Civil Government gives us a theory of natural law and natural rights which he used to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate civil governments, and to argue for the legitimacy of revolt against tyrannical governments. Locke equated "the law of nature" with "the rule of morals." He wrote of a God who ... "show[ed] Himself to us as present everywhere, exhibiting Himself to the eyes of men in the ... regular course of nature." His equation underscored his belief that "man alon...
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