John Locke held that government exists to protect which natural rights?

1. Locke was a seventeenth-century English philosopher whom the chapter calls the most important influence on American beliefs about government. 2. His contribution concerned the relationship between government and natural rights, understood as God-given rights to life, liberty and property. 3. Because those rights came from God rather than from a king, no ruler or institution could abolish them. 4. Note that Jefferson's later phrasing in the Declaration of Independence substitutes the pursuit of happiness for property, which is the pairing students most often confuse. _Source: OpenStax American Government 3e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 2 "The Constitution and Its Origins", §2.1 The Pre-Revolutionary Period_