Man being born with a title to perfect freedom, and enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature, equally with any other man, hath by nature a power, not only to preserve his life, liberty and estate, against the injuries and attempts of other men; but to judge of, and punish the breaches of that law in others. -John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, 1690 John Locke's writing reflects the ideals of the Enlightenment in that
A) men are created with equal rights and responsibilities under the law of nature.
B) civil society is not possible when men work to protect their property.
C) there is no private property, and therefore no justice or injustice.
D) government must be rule by a democracy, rather than by a monarch.