The law of nature would, as all other laws that concern men in this world, be in vain, if there were no body that in the state of nature had a power to execute that law, and thereby preserve the innocent and restrain offenders.
— John Locke Early Modern

Empiricism, natural rights

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Two Treatises of Government

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1689

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Shocking

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1732/1732-h/1732-h.htm

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