Summarize John Locke's position on government and human nature in Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Second Treatise on Government.

What will be an ideal response?

The ideal answer should include:
- In Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke proposed that individuals are capable of governing themselves.
- Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding introduced the idea of tabula rasa ("blank slate"), implying that humans are truly formed by their environment.
- In Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke argued that through tabula rasa, humans in a reasonable society will grow into reasonable people.
- Locke's form of liberalism that began in Essay Concerning Human Understanding was expanded in Second Treatise of Government and set the stage for the political revolutions that would dominate the Western world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.