• American Revolution
• Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
  • One of the most prominent advocates of conservatism
• Enlightenment
• Glorious Revolution (1688)
  • Established Britain as a constitutional monarchy
  • Lead to English Bill of Rights (1689)
• John Locke
  • Natural laws of politics
  • Life, liberty, property
• Magna Carta
  • 1215
  • First legal restrictions on royal power
• Popular Sovereignty
  • rulers need to be responsible to the people they rule
    • people possess individual rights
    • derived from the consent of the governed

Mencius

• 4 century BC Chinese philosopher
• Similar ideas to Locke many centuries before him