John Locke's Two Treatises Of Government

John Locke is an important and influential person in America’s history, from his ideas of separation of powers, social contract theory, and to his Two Treatises of Government, he has helped to make America become better than it was before him. In the Two treatises of government, he showed the importance of personal government and democratic nation, this placed the basic ideas of the Constitution. During his time, the monarchy and the Parliament and church were too powerful. He wanted to separate the powers of each government, so that the state could not disturb the person’s right. John Locke stated that all men are created equal and ideas regarding the first amendment. In his social contract theory, he formed the idea of an equivalent affiliation