John Locke Foundation
The Triangle
The John Locke Foundation is named for John Locke (1632-1704), an English philosopher whose writings inspired Thomas Jefferson and the other Founders. Locke is a 501(c)(3) research institute and is funded by thousands of individuals, foundations and corporations. The Foundation does not accept government funds or contributions to influence its work or the outcomes of its research.
Locke envisions a North Carolina in which liberty and limited, constitutional government are the cornerstones of society so that individuals, families, and institutions can freely shape their own destinies.
Locke’s mission is to be North Carolina’s most influential force driving public policy so North Carolinians flourish in a free and prosperous society.
When the John Locke Foundation opened its doors in 1990, it was one of the first free-market, limited-government think tanks in the country to focus the majority of its attention on a single state. Named for the 17th-century English philosopher who exerted such a profound influence on the American Founders, Locke would soon exert significant influence of its own on North Carolina’s most important public policy debates.
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