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John Locke is the father of liberalism. Explain.

  • UPSC 2018
  • 20 marks
  • Political Ideologies

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John Locke (1632–1704) is called the father of liberalism because his Two Treatises of Government (1689) and A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689) turned the revolt against Stuart absolutism into a general theory of limited government. Others had spoken of natural right; Locke made rights the limit and purpose of political power.

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