The power of the husband is so far from that of an absolute monarch, that the wife has in many cases a liberty to separate herself from him, where natural right or their contract allows it.
— John Locke Early Modern

Empiricism, natural rights

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Two Treatises of Government

Date / Period

1689

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Shocking

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1732/1732-h/1732-h.htm

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