The bill of rights implied that govenrment was based on a contract betweek ruler and ruled, a concept of government increasinly attractive among englighted leaders in western europe. This theory of govenrmetn was set forth with special force by John Locke in his “Two treatises on Civil Government plushed in 1690)


John locke from england found refuge in United Provinces of the Dutch in its cultural outburst.

Political theory spread with John locke and Thomas Hobbes. Locke was heavily influenced by seventeenth century science he acquired a medical education at college, read the works of leading scientific thinkers such as Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton and was a friend of Robert Boyle. Like Hobbes, Locke was involved in some of the political events of his times. Locke also started with human beings in a state of nature, made some basic assumptions about the human condition and traced the exit from the state of nature by way of a social contract. Yet Locke came to some significantly different conclusions. Assuming that human beings were not quite so self-centered and that things in the state of nature were not so bad. Locke argued that the sovereign had far fewere powers than Hobbe  had calimed. And that individuals retained the right to revolt under certain circumstatndes. Applying reasoning similar to that of 17th century