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The two basic principles of the liberal theory of democracy as emphasised by John Locke, are
Answer: Option C
Answer: (c)
John Locke's "Two Treatises on Government" of 1689 established two fundamental liberal ideas: economic liberty (meaning the right to have and use the property) and intellectual liberty (including freedom of conscience). According to Locke, the individual was naturally free and only became a political subject out of free choice.
Without the consent of the people, there could not be formed a civil society/ community. Secondly, Locke emphasized that all men were equal. There was a perfect state of equality with all the power being reciprocal and no one having more than the other. This is a fundamental principle of present-day democracy.
From it, flows the democratic principle of universal participation. That no man shall be excluded from the political process.
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Answer: (c)
John Locke's "Two Treatises on Government" of 1689 established two fundamental liberal ideas: economic liberty (meaning the right to have and use the property) and intellectual liberty (including freedom of conscience). According to Locke, the individual was naturally free and only became a political subject out of free choice.
Without the consent of the people, there could not be formed a civil society/ community. Secondly, Locke emphasized that all men were equal. There was a perfect state of equality with all the power being reciprocal and no one having more than the other. This is a fundamental principle of present-day democracy.
From it, flows the democratic principle of universal participation. That no man shall be excluded from the political process.
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