What was John Locke’s educational and political background? How did his background reflect Enlightenment ideas? 2. Although Locke in agreed with Hobbes about the necessity of a social contract in a brutish state of nature, what were his disagreements regarding man’s natural rights and the operation of the social contract? How did he view the power of the king? 3. What were Locke’s views on property and its relationship to government? 4. Explain Locke’s ideas about representative government. What role did property play in his conception of voting rights?