GS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Innocent Victim, Protestantism
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Introduction: known as the father of liberalism. After this there was no monarchy, it became a commonwealth under dictatorship of cornwell. Cornwell died and was succeeded by his son, but then turmoil broke out in england was becoming a failed state - so the people reinstated the monarchy in 1660. Charles ii, was brought to the throne in 1660: british parliament started in the 11th century as an advisory council advised the king of britain and helped him to collect taxes. Locke"s time was the period of the wars of religion: charles ii, was a protestant, and found himself in the middle of these tensions, his brother james, was next in line for the throne. With this revolution, the powers of the monarchy reduced drastically. To establish that individuals: have natural rights prior to the formation of society and state, create the state to protect their rights, goal 2:
