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John Locke was born on August 29,1632 and lived till October 28,1704. He was an English philosopher whose notions of government with the consent of the governed and the natural rights of man (life,freedom liberty and property) had an enormous influence on colonial Americans, allowing them to justify revolution and shape a new government.
He advocated that all men were equal and that each should be permitted to act as long as he harms no other. Using these foundations, he continued to make a classic justification for private property by declaring that the natural world is the common property of all men, but that any individual could appropriate some bit of it for himself by mixing his labour with the natural resources.
Locke is considered the protagonist of empiricism, commonly called the "State of Nature" theory. This theory states that all people in the beginning know nothing and that they learn from experiences of trial and error.