Letter Concerning Toleration

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In this article, the writer offers a discussion of John Locke's "Letter Concerning Toleration." The writer discusses the influence of the Enlightenment on the work. The writer also discusses Locke's belief that people had an innate ability to govern themselves and his rejection of the divine right of monarchs. Further, the writer concludes that democracy is the only suitable form of government.

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"The passage in question comes from John Locke's 'Letter Concerning Toleration' which was originally published in Latin. Locke was a seventeenth-century English philosopher associated with the Enlightenment. As such, he believed in the innate ability of people to govern themselves and he rejected traditional notions of the divine authority of monarchs to rule their subjects. Locke posited that governments could only truly govern with the consent of the governed and that therefore democracy was the only suitable form of government. Locke achieved lasting fame in American history ... "

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