John Locke (1632–1704) is among the most influential political philosophers of the modern period. In the Two Treatises of Government, he defended the claim that men are by nature free and equal against claims that God had made all people naturally subject to a monarch.
He thought that men were born equal and free against the claim that people are born to be subject to a monarch. He argues that sovereignty resides in the people and that everyone is born with natural rights (life, liberty and property)
