Thus the practical movement for the limitation of the powers of government became associated, as in the influential philosophy of John Locke, with the doctrine that the ground and justification of the restriction was prior non-political rights inherent in the very structure of the individual.
Dewey connects the limitation of government powers to the philosophy of John Locke regarding individual rights.
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