Last class we focused on the concept of commerce promoted by the Spectator #69…it involves the aggressive promotion of free trade, as non-coercive, of benefit to all, an the creator of wealth and benefits to all. This class we will view British culture as a group of sources for the practice of American Freedom; Dictionary definition: notice that the first four definitions have a negative dimension: they offer a NOT from restraints, slavery, oppression, incarceration, domination by a political agency, certain onerous conditions. Why is freedom important? It was one of the central values in the name of which the revolution was fought; …it continues to be one of the cardinal values the leaders use to describe and justify America.

This gives you some background on what Locke writes in the many pages before the ones in our Reader.