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Who among the following advocated the “Labour Theory” of Property”?
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- Thomas Hobbes
- John Locke
- J.J. Rousseau
- J.S. Mill
- Thomas Hobbes
Correct Option: B
The labor theory of property is a natural law theory that holds that property originally comes about by the exertion of labor upon natural resources. In his Second Treatise on Government, the philosopher John Locke asked by what right an individual can claim to own one part of the world, when, according to the Bible, God gave the world to all humanity in common. He argued in support of individual property rights as “natural rights.”