Ideas about property and freedom from John Locke worked their way into America’s founding documents and influence the nation to this day. ... We’ve confused natural rights with social aspirations.

John Locke was a 17th-century English philosopher and political theorist whose ideas helped lay the foundation for the ... He famously wrote that man has three natural rights: life, liberty, ...

In these great works, Locke refutes the divine right of kings and sets forth the nature of legitimate civil government, based on (what was at the time) the radical idea of natural rights and the ...

Parental rights are more than a legal concept—they’re a God-given responsibility, woven into the fabric of human nature. The Founding Fathers understood this deeply. John Adams wrote in 1778 ...

Last night’s Lost was an hour-long festival of Locke, with a special guest appearance from the World’s Biggest Kid (and I don’t mean whiny Jack). Let’s talk about it after the cut. I’ve ...

At root, the debate about legalizing marijuana is a philosophical one dating to the Enlightenment. It pits the individual natural rights philosophy of John Locke (1632-1704) against the ...

Parental rights are more than a legal concept—they’re a God-given responsibility, woven into the fabric of human nature. The Founding Fathers understood this deeply. John Adams wrote in 1778 ...

"Helping to secure [natural rights] in the world of 2213 may require the creation of lesser, instrumental rights by law or constitutional amendment that differ from the subsidiary rights of the U ...

On March 9, 1836, Sen. John C. Calhoun rose, not for the first time, to sing the praises of human bondage. Two months earlier, an Ohio senator had presented a pair of petitions sent by citizens of ...