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. In a discussion of Genesis, this thinker wrote, “In the beginning, all the world was (*) America.” (10[1])A text by this thinker 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 set forth in Patriarcha by Robert Filmer. (10[2])For 10 points, what thinker wrote that property comes from mixing one’s labor with nature (10[1])in his Two Treatises (10[1])of Government? ■END■

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