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whose Second Treatise
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on Government from 1683 suggested
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that you could apply nature's laws
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to the political world as well,
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and determine and understand natural and political rights.
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And I'm going to offer here a really woefully
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brief summary of Locke's thoughts
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that'll just be enough to give us a sense of
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what it is that Jefferson's getting at here.
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Basically, locke believed that people were born free,
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unhampered by government
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and with certain natural rights--