text: The first part of one of this man’s works criticizes the right to rule by descent by arguing that descent from Adam could not be historically reasoned.
full_question: The first part of one of this man’s works criticizes the right to rule by descent by arguing that descent from Adam could not be historically reasoned. That refutation by this man was enacted as legal truth in his home country in 1688. In the second part of that work, this man defines political power as the right of making Laws with Penalties of Death. This man’s An Essay Concerning Human (*) Understanding argued that the human mind was a “Tabula Rasa” upon which knowledge was imprinted. FTP, name this 17th century English political philosopher whose Two Treatises on Government inspired the ideas of the American Revolution.
first_sentence: The first part of one of this man’s works criticizes the right to rule by descent by arguing that descent from Adam could not be historically reasoned.