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Locke Presentation Geoffrey Tang Background: The mid seventeenth century saw a protest England nervous about the Catholic sympathies that the royal family harboured. They were worried about the monarchies power to rule without the consent of the Parliament. They were concerned about their inability to control the monarch's power to levy taxes or to operate an absolutist monarchy, this was not helped by their aforementioned suspicions of the monarchies Catholic sympathies. Tensions came to a …

…lead to more productive forms of property capable of supporting larger populations, and is thus better able to fulfill our duty of self preservation. However, Locke is at great pains to state that property rights in our modern economy only hold good as long as the proviso that even the poor are better off holds good and that men 'must remit something of his full Satisfaction,..... (to) those who are to perish without it.'