Pl ! will give ! how were ideas from enlightenment philosophers like john locke significant?

      He thought that the purpose of government was to protect the natural rights of its citizens. He said that natural rights were life, liberty and property, and that all people automatically earned these simply by being born. When a government did not protect those rights, the citizen had the right and maybe even the obligation of overthrowing the government.  So basically this means it helped us form a government