The idea that came from John Locke is:
Locke stated that people had natural rights.
John Locke is known for his theories about natural rights, which include life, liberty, and property. The other statements are not representative of his views: he did not reject the state of nature entirely, he did not claim that governments are inherently evil, and the description of life in the state of nature ("solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short") is actually attributed to Thomas Hobbes, not Locke.
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