ey are not wanted by the people anymore. This is very similar to people voting for the candidate they favor. They can not kick him out of office if they do not like his decisions and that is where Locke’s ideas differ from our government. He was a very smart man and he knew what he was talking about because about four-hundred years later we are using some of his ideas.John Locke was born at Wrington, a village in Somerset, on August 29, 1632. He was the son of a country solicitor and small landowner. In 1646 he entered Westminster school and passed to Christ Church, Oxford, as a junior student, in 1652. The official studies of the university were unimportant to him; he wanted to learn philosophy from Descartes instead of from Aristotle. In 1659 he was elected to a senior studentship and in the four years following, he took part in the tutorial work of the college. At one time he thought of the clerical profession as a possible career. About the same time he was interested in experimental science, and he was elected a member of the Royal Society in 1668. Not much is known of his early medical studies; however what is known is that he did not follow the course because he was unable to graduate and get his doctors degree. Finally in 1674 he graduated as bachelor of medicine and in the following January his position in Christ Church was regularized by his appointment to one of the two medical studentships of the college. ...
