The 17th-century philosopher John Locke heavily influenced the American founding. The Heritage Foundation’s Joseph Loconte explains what advice Locke might have for America today.

John Locke was a 17th-century English philosopher and political theorist whose ideas helped lay the foundation for the Enlightenment. ... Locke, John. "Two Treatises of Government," Page 122.

And another work that early Americans attributed to Locke—his plan of government for the Carolina colony in North America in the 1660s—was often held up as an example of how abstract political ...

From Locke To Blockchain: ... John Locke, the oft-quoted grandfather of British Liberalism, whose "life, ... In his Second Treatise of Government, ...

Arcenas anticipates Locke’s eviction from the liberal canon, and wonders whether he might be replaced by another icon – John Stuart Mill, say. Locke’s curious American afterlife remains an unfinished ...