Life, liberty and property: three words that echo through modern democracy.

On October 28, 1704, the English philosopher John Locke died at Oates, in Essex, at age 72. In his Two Treatises of Government he argued that people are born with natural rights and that a government's authority depends on the consent of the governed.

Those ideas deeply influenced thinkers of the Enlightenment and the leaders of the American and French Revolutions. His writings on knowledge and religious tolerance were just as influential.

Which idea from history do you think shaped your world the most?

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