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The English philospher who called for the consent of the governed was named john Locke. He believed that people had natural rights. He also thought that in a state of nature, people could be reasonable and moral as opposed to the thinking of Thomas Hobbes. Hobbes believed that people were naturally violent and disorderly.

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