Real Syntactic on Nostr: So the precedent remains in the Anglo-American world. Moreover, it’s crucial to ...

So the precedent remains in the Anglo-American world. Moreover, it’s crucial to consider John Locke’s 1690 response to Filmer in Two Treatises of Government. In the Second Treatise, Locke - super-influential on US political thought, of course, including the Declaration of Independence - totally rejected Filmer’s idea that royal authority is a divine grant of right to husbands and by extension to fathers. Men and women, he declared, are born free and equal. God created no kingship. 6/x