View text of Locke's essay "Further Considerations Concerning Raising the Value of Money."

View text of Locke's essay "Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and the Raising the Value of Money."

Notes on Locke's essay "For encouraging the coining Silver Money in England, and after for keeping it here."

Excerpts from John Locke's famous 1689 work "Two Treatises of Government" where he discusses his political ideas that came to influence the U.S. Revolutionaries.

At this site you can read Chapter XVI, Of Conquest, by John Locke stating that the basis of any government must be the consent of the people, and implying in the writing that war or revolution is often mistaken as consent. (Published in...

Presents an evaluation of John Locke's "Two Treatises on Government." Site explains how Locke refutes the doctrine of absolute power and attempts to reconcile the liberty of the citizen with the political order.

This site from The Victorian Web allows on to read a brief but informative biography about John Locke and his major works and accomplishments on the Victorian Web. Includes black and white portrait, along with links to additional...

A tutorial that looks at the ideas from the Enlightenment that influenced the Founding Fathers, particularly those of John Locke and Montesquieu. A PDF file of the tutorial is available.

This site contains a question and answer format on the theories of Locke and Hobbes. It answers questions about the political system and social contract, as well as theorizing about the state of nature and rights of man.

An image of John Locke.

This PowerPoint with help your students see the difference in the philosophies of Hobbs vs Locke. Also explained is how those philosophies influenced England.

An image of John Locke.

A portrait of John Locke from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.

A portrait of John Locke from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.

Two opposing philosophies concerning the relationship between government and its citizens were expressed by Thomas Hobbes and John Locke in the 17th century. Compare these two philosophies and see how they were related to the colonists'...

This site provides selections from John Locke's "Two Treatisies on Government." It contains evaluations on the sections 'Of the State of Nature' and 'Of Political of Civil Society.'

A learning module that begins with "Political Society" by John Locke, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and...

The ideas of the Enlightenment began in Europe, but they were acted upon in the American colonies. See how the philosophies of John Locke and Rousseau influenced the thoughts and actions of Puritan clergy and political figures like...

Dig into philosophers Thomas Hobbes and John Locke's ideas and see how they've influenced those that have followed in their footsteps.

This site from the Mind and Body Shop studies the English philosopher John Locke's ideas, especially those in his famous writing "Concerning Human Understanding".

Tells the story of Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the New World. She was the granddaughter of John White, Governor of the colony established on Roanoke Island in 1587. While White was on a trip to England to replenish the...

English philosopher, concerned with natural rights and justifying the revolution.

A 17th-century English philosopher. He developed the Lockean social contract, which included the ideas of a state of nature. He was also the first to fully develop the idea of tabula rasa.

This site presents an abstract of the social contract tradition. It also contains a very detailed overview of the ideas of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau.