Who was a British philosopher is widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the Father of Liberalism and that the mind was a blank slate or tabula?

john Locke is the man who provided the philosophy that man has a right to determine his own government. He provided the foundations for the constitution and the Declaration of Independence and the political norms of monarchy, state religion, and the divine right of kings were wrong.