From Civil Liberties to Social Contract Theory: Hobbes' and Locke's Influence on the Early American Republic

Authors

Evan A. Krasner, Bard College

Degree

Master of Arts in Teaching in History

Files

Publication Date

Spring 2021

Table of Contents

I. Synthesis Essay………………………………..4

II. Primary Documents and Headnotes………...18

III. Textbook Critique……………………………...31

IV. New Textbook Entry…………………………...33

V. Bibliography………………………………….....35

Keywords

secondary education social studies, historiography, Hobbes, Locke, American Revolution, Political Theory

Disciplines

American Politics | American Studies | History | Political History | Political Science | United States History

Comments

Updated Links to Primary Documents:

“Chapter xxix: Of those things that Weaken a Commonwealth”: https://resources.saylor.org/wwwresources/archived/site/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/chapter29.html

“Chapter V: Of Property” in John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government (1690): https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch16s3.html

“Chapter xii: Of Religion” in Leviathan (1688): https://www.bartleby.com/34/5/12.html

“Chapter XVIII: Of Tyranny,” in Second Treatise of Government (1690): https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/politics/locke/ch18.htm

Image of Leviathan by Abraham Bosse (1668): https://www.college.columbia.edu/core/content/frontispiece-thomas-hobbes%E2%80%99-leviathan-abraham-bosse-creative-input-thomas-hobbes-1651

“Chapter II: Of the State of Nature” in John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government (1690): http://www.wright.edu/~christopher.oldstone-moore/JohnLocke.htm

Recommended Citation

Krasner, Evan A., "From Civil Liberties to Social Contract Theory: Hobbes' and Locke's Influence on the Early American Republic" (2021). History - Master of Arts in Teaching. 20.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/history_mat/20