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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...