“Two Treatises of Government,” an Enlightenment pamphlet published anonymously by John Locke in 1689. Adams absorbed Locke’s attack on the divine right of kings at Harvard (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
“Two Treatises of Government,” an Enlightenment pamphlet published anonymously by John Locke in 1689. Adams absorbed Locke’s attack on the divine right of kings at Harvard (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)