WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Locke thus stated one of the fundamental principles of political liberalism: that there can be no subjection to power without consent-though once political society has been founded, citizens are obligated to accept the decisions of a majority of their number.

Detailed explanation-2: -For Locke, the government must be a “neutral judge” of law with no right to interfere in the lives of the individual. The most radical idea to come from Locke’s pen was the idea of governmental legitimacy. Locke believed that a government should be beholden to the people rather than vice-versa.

Detailed explanation-3: -Given that people are ‘naturally free’, it is only by their consent that they can put themselves ‘into subjection to any Earthly Power’ (Locke, 1988: II. 119). Until ‘by their own Consents they make themselves Members of some Politick Society’, people remain in the state of nature (Locke, 1988: II.