Packet 7: Tossup 6

This thinker argues that God has a maker’s absolute right over humanity according to James Tully’s “workmanship” model. This thinker described a people’s right to resist a ruler who would “enslave or destroy them” as an “appeal to Heaven.” (15[1])This thinker used (-5[1])the example of traveling on highways to distinguish between “express” and “tacit” consent. (15[1]-5[1])In a discussion of Genesis, this thinker wrote, “In the beginning, all the world was (*) America.” (10[2])A text by (10[1])this thinker (10[1])opposes (10[1])a near-contemporary’s argument that (10[1])Adam bequeathed his fatherly (10[1])authority (10[1])as well as his title over (10[2])creation. (10[3])In that text, this thinker rebuts the doctrine of divine right (10[1])of kings (10[2])set (10[1])forth in Patriarcha (10[3])by Robert Filmer. (10[4]-5[1])For (10[1])10 (10[1])points, (10[2])what thinker (10[2])wrote that (10[1])property comes from mixing (10[1])one’s labor with (10[1])nature (10[2])in his Two Treatises (10[1])of Government? (10[2])■END■ (10[3]0[1])

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