John Locke's account of natural rights, the social contract, and the conditions under which revolution is justified.
Government exists to protect pre-political natural rights (life, liberty, property); its authority derives from consent; when it violates these rights systematically, the people may dissolve it. The labor theory of property grounds original acquisition.
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