express the ideas of liberty and equality in which liberalism stands.
According to Locke, all citizens possess natural rights, and the only legitimate exercise of government authority is to ensure those rights are protected. Locke argued that no government should ever be able to remove these natural rights of life, liberty, health and property. Locke also believed all people are created equal and free, “The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is…
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