John Locke's Three Natural Rights

Locke’s three natural rights are life, liberty, and property. Every person must have the right of keeping their life. A person or group cannot decide if they live or die because that would be interfering with that person’s life and freedoms. If a person’s properties are taken by another, they will be forced to work for someone else or die, which would take away that person’s liberty or life, which is why Locke says a person's property is the most important natural right. The right of liberty or freedom is quite important as well because, without basic freedom, you have no free will or ability to do anything without the consent of another person, which is very similar if you think about it to an absolute monarchy. Locke writes in The Treatise
of Government, “The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions: for men being all the workmanship of one omnipotent, and infinitely wise maker” (Locke The Treatise of Government). Locke is saying that no person shall control another person because that right is for God, or the maker alone. You could also say he meant no-one is allowed to take away another's natural rights because they are in no way, shape, or form superior to the person. Of, course all of these rights and laws must be enforced and encouraged by a leader or government.