Round 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.” This thinker used the example of traveling on highways to distinguish between “express” and “tacit” consent. (15[1])In a discussion of Genesis, this thinker wrote, “In the beginning, all the world was (*) America.” A text by this thinker (10[1])opposes a near-contemporary’s argument that Adam bequeathed his fatherly authority as well as his title over creation. In that text, this thinker rebuts the doctrine of divine right of kings (10[1])set forth in Patriarcha (10[1])by Robert Filmer. For 10 points, what thinker wrote that property comes from mixing one’s labor with nature (10[1])in his Two Treatises of Government? ■END■

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