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Holly Brewer defended this philosopher in an essay partially titled for “Inheritable Blood” that argues he morally opposed a document in which he wrote about a class of “leet-men.” He’s not Rousseau, but this thinker wrote that slavery is only permissible (-5[1])if the enslaved violates natural law and that no contract (10[1])can create slavery. This philosopher and his patron, the Earl of Shaftesbury, wrote a document protecting slaveholders’ (10[1])rights in the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina. (10[1])In another work, this thinker argues that governments should protect “life, (10[1])liberty, (10[1])and estate.” (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])name this English Enlightenment author of (10[1])Two Treatises of Government. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: John Locke
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