John Locke was a political philosopher and social psychologist, often called the “Father of Liberalism”. He believed the right to government depended upon the people. He also claimed the natural right of man were the right to life, liberty, and property. Locke believed in religious freedom as well. He believed in an idea called “state of nature”. “State of nature” means all men are allowed to “order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature”. In Second Treatise of Government Locke establishes an equality of all, disregarding the monarchy of his time. Locke says that the state of nature is one “of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one
