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Go to the websites listed below and then answer the questions that follow.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/)
This is a comprehensive entry that presents an extensive overview of Locke's life and works along with links to other resources.

A Summary View of the Rights of British America, Thomas Jefferson
(http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch14s10.html)
This website contains the relatively brief text of Thomas Jefferson's 1774 pamphlet on natural rights, part of the website of The Founders' Constitution, the University of Chicago Press's well-respected anthology of important American documents.

Volunteering in the United States, 2007
(http://www.bls.gov/news.release/volun.nr0.htm)
This news release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics presents extensive data on volunteering collected during the September 2007 Current Population Survey (CPS) and links to other resources.

1
What kind of response do you think John Locke would receive in the United States today? Would people find his ideas "good but unworkable"? Why or why not?
2
What does Thomas Jefferson's A Summary View of the Rights of British America have in common with the Declaration of Independence?
3
What are the main characteristics of a person who volunteered in the United States in 2007, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and did a typical volunteer work more than an hour a week at the volunteer post?





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