Author of Two Treatises on Civil Government who believed that government could exist without the consent of the governed and that the primary purpose of the state was to protect the rights of the citizen.

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Author of "Two Treatises on Civil Government," who believed that government could exist without the consent of the governed and that the primary purpose of the state was to protect the rights of the citizen.

We are talking about John Locke.

John Locke(1632-1704) was an English thinker, economist, and philosopher in the Enlightenment times, who established many new political concepts such as political liberalism and wrote the famous book "Two Treatises of Government," in which he developed interesting concepts about natural rights for the citizens and the social contract.

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