Dr. Brandon Turner of Clemson University discusses the role of violence in 17th-century philosopher John Locke’s Second Treatise on Civil Government. Turner offered these comments during an interview for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 535).
North Carolina: Early to the revolution
In early 1776, battle lines in NC had already been drawn between loyalists to the British crown and American patriots. At the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge, these lines burst into the open.