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natrual rights ✔✔Life, Liberty, and Property John Locke ✔✔17th century English philosopher who opposed the Divine Right of Kings and who asserted that people have a natural right to life, li... berty, and property. State of Nature ✔✔Hypothetical condition assumed to exist in the absence of government where human beings live in "complete" freedom and general equality. Due Process ✔✔involves the government's obligation to treat all citizens fairly. Such a requirement lessens the extent to which government power can be exercised over the individual, making the power differential between the two more fair, and ensuring a general sense of political equality Social Contract ✔✔A voluntary agreement among individuals to secure their rights and welfare by creating a government and abiding by its rules. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) ✔✔One of the first individuals to contribute to the idea of the social contract was a pre-Enlightenment English philosopher Leviathan (1651): Thomas [Show More]

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