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The 100 pages that link to John Locke, each with the reason it gives.

• LiberalismRelated: Locke gave influential early arguments for rights-based government and limited authority.

• Political legitimacyRelated: Locke ties legitimate government to consent and the protection of rights.

• Social contractRelated: Locke treats political power as limited and revocable when it violates its entrusted purpose.

• Separation of powersRelated: His distinction influenced later arguments for dividing governmental functions.

• SecularismRelated: His arguments for toleration helped shape liberal accounts of religion's limits in government.

• Thomas JeffersonRelated: Locke’s ideas helped inform the natural-rights language Jefferson adapted in the Declaration.

• David HumeRelated: Hume inherits Locke’s experiential approach while rejecting a stable self known through introspection.

• Natural lawRelated: Locke connected natural rights to limits on political authority and justified resistance to tyranny.

• EpistemologyRelated: His account made experience central to modern debates about the sources of knowledge.

• Popular sovereigntyRelated: Locke made consent and the people’s right to resist central arguments against absolute rule.

• IndividualismRelated: His account of persons with rights became a major source for liberal individualism.

• Civil societyRelated: Locke's account of society and political authority helped shape later distinctions between them.

• Personal identityRelated: Locke connected personal identity to consciousness and memory in a highly influential account.

• Royal prerogativeRelated: Locke's account of executive prerogative framed discretion as authority used for the public good where law is silent.

• Private propertyRelated: Locke's account of appropriation became a lasting argument for private ownership.

• Religious tolerationRelated: His 1689 argument made religious belief a matter civil authorities could not compel.

• Natural rightsRelated: Locke made natural rights central to a theory of government founded on consent.

• Political philosophyRelated: His arguments helped shape liberal accounts of legitimate government and resistance.

• Classical liberalismRelated: His account of rights and limited government became a lasting liberal foundation.

• IntrospectionRelated: He described reflection on one’s own mental operations as a source of ideas.

• MajoritarianismRelated: His account of political society helped justify majority decisions as binding on a community.

• Checks and balancesRelated: His account helped shape later arguments for distributing governmental authority.

• Consent of the governedRelated: His account of consent and resistance became a central statement of the principle.

• Bill of Rights 1689Related: His political ideas are often associated with the revolutionary settlement, though the statute did not simply enact his theory.

• FoundationalismRelated: Locke treated experience as a central source of ideas and epistemic support.

• Political authorityRelated: Locke makes consent conditional on government protecting rights and permits resistance to tyranny.

• PropertyRelated: His labor theory remains a prominent justification for private property.

• CompatibilismRelated: Locke’s distinctions shaped later disputes over what freedom requires.

• Political obligationRelated: His theory makes consent central while limiting obedience to rightful government.

• FreedomRelated: His account connects individual liberty to rights and limited political authority.

• Freedom of conscienceRelated: His arguments helped shape later defenses of religious toleration.

• Religious epistemologyRelated: His account of faith and reason asks when testimony can justify religious assent.

• RightsRelated: Locke made natural rights central to a major account of legitimate government.

• State of natureRelated: His state of nature includes natural law and rights to life, liberty, and property.

• Whig PartyRelated: His arguments became associated with Whig defenses of resistance and constitutional government.

• AssociationismRelated: Locke introduced association as a source of connections that can distort judgment.

• Association of IdeasRelated: His account of the association of ideas helped establish the topic Hume systematized.

• PersonhoodRelated: Locke's account shifted attention from substance to continuity of consciousness.

• Pierre GassendiRelated: Locke’s empiricism developed in a tradition to which Gassendi’s arguments against innatism contributed.

• Thomas PaineRelated: Locke’s political philosophy provides a key context for Paine’s rights-based arguments.

• Age of EnlightenmentRelated: His arguments for rights and consent became major resources for Enlightenment political thought.

• MinarchismRelated: Locke's limited-government arguments helped shape later defenses of state restraint.

• Negative libertyRelated: His defense of individual rights shaped later arguments for protected private freedom.

• Christ Church, OxfordRelated: Locke studied at Christ Church and later returned as a tutor and academic.

• Francis HutchesonRelated: Hutcheson inherited an empiricist framework while resisting the idea that morality derives from self-interest.

• George BerkeleyRelated: Berkeley develops his critique of abstract ideas and material qualities from debates prompted by Locke.

• GeorgismRelated: Georgist arguments engage the tension between private property and claims to natural resources.

• Tabula rasaRelated: His account of the mind as initially unwritten made tabula rasa a defining image of empiricism.

• AgrarianismRelated: His account of property helped frame landownership as a basis for individual independence.

• Individual rightsRelated: His account of life, liberty, and property shaped later rights declarations.