T en years before the American Revolution, Charles Pratt, ... John Locke. “So true are the words of that consummate reasoner and politician Mr. Locke,” Camden said.

The logic of the right of revolution gave birth to this nation in July 1776, and it persists today in American resistance to insurrection against democracy, voter suppression, gerrymandering, book ...

A new American Revolution is going on in the Supreme Court. In recent years, it has issued four major decisions curtailing ...

Philosopher John Locke’s concept of natural rights argued that people are born with certain rights that come from God, and that governments have no authority to revoke them.

The 1619 Project’s most harebrained idea is that the American Revolution was fought to preserve slavery. ... Americans took their lodestar from British political philosopher John Locke, ...

It shows that Locke’s influence on early American political thought was both more complicated and more interesting than we’d previously imagined. Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ...

What John and Abigail Adams wanted us to know was that the American Revolution was not just a great political crisis. It was also a personal crisis for their family.

When Newton published his revolutionary new theories of gravity and motion way back in 1687, I’m sure he didn’t How Isaac Newton’s science inspired the American Revolution Skip to main ...

The political thinker who mattered most to a revolutionary generation spoke in a language they had no difficulty understanding. ... John Locke in American Intellectual Life. By Claire Rydell Arcenas.

Locke’s ideas weren’t singularly influential during the American Revolution either; they had no more purchase on the rhetoric of patriots than those of the early 18th-century British journalists John ...