Life Liberty And Figgerits (2025)

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What is life liberty and property from? ›

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Locke's list of natural rights included life, liberty, and property. When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence many years later, he drew on Locke's social contract theory and ideas of natural rights. However, he changed them to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The greatest disagreement comes between those who suggest the phrase was drawn from John Locke and those who more strongly attribute to Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

John Locke on the rights to life, liberty, and property of ourselves and others (1689) Found in: The Two Treatises of Civil Government (Hollis ed.)

“Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.” Each of us, Locke argued, has “a property in” his or her person, and that property is inalienable, that is, it cannot be transferred to another.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the ...

John Locke (1632–1704) was another prominent Western philosopher who conceptualized rights as natural and inalienable. Like Hobbes, Locke believed in a natural right to life, liberty, and property.

The Declaration of Independence (front)

By far the most influential writings emerged from the pen of scholar John Locke. He expressed the radical view that government is morally obliged to serve people, namely by protecting life, liberty, and property. He explained the principle of checks and balances to limit government power.

Among them was the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits the states from depriving “any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” When it was adopted, the Clause was understood to mean that the government could deprive a person of rights only according to law applied by a court.

John Locke listed these as ''life, liberty, and the right to own property'' in his Two Treatises of Civil Government.

Did the Declaration of Independence say life, liberty, and property? ›

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent ...