Use the excerpt to answer the question.
“POLITICAL POWER, then, I take to be a RIGHT of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties, for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the force of the community, in the execution of such laws, and in the defence of the commonwealth from foreign injury; and all this only for the public good.”
The Enlightenment philosopher John Locke wrote the excerpt. How do his ideas here show support for the capitalist ideas developed by Adam Smith?
(1 point)
A) Adam Smith also believed that the individual should protect private property instead of the state.
B) Adam Smith also believed the government should take private property for the public good.
C) Adam Smith also believed that the government should act to preserve private property.
D) Adam Smith also believed that private property should not exist.