Locke Defended the claim that men are by nature free and equal against claims that God had made all people naturally subject to a monarch. Lock says that people have rights, such as the rate of life, liberty, and property that I have a foundation independent of the laws of any particular society. He also said that men are naturally free and equal as part of the justification for understanding legitimate political government as the result of a social contract or people in the state of nature conditionally transfer some of the rights to the government in order to better ensure the stable, comfortable enjoyment of their lives, liberty, and property.
