Editing Homestead principle (section)

=== John Locke ===
{{Main|Labor theory of property}}
In his 1690 work ''[[Two Treatises of Government#Second Treatise|Second Treatise of Government]]'', [[Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] philosopher [[John Locke]] advocated the [[Lockean proviso]] which allows for homesteading.

[[John Locke|Locke]] famously saw the mixing of labour with land as the source of ownership via homesteading:
:Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a ''property'' in his own ''person''. This nobody has any right to but himself. The ''labour'' of his body and the ''work'' of his hands, we may say, are {{grey|[likewise]}} properly his. Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that Nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his ''labour'' with it, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his ''property''.<ref name=Locke-1689-Two-II-5-§27/>

Furthermore, Locke held that individuals have a right to homestead private property from nature only so long as "there is enough, and as good, left in common for others".{{refn|name=Locke-1689-Second-V-§27|
''Second Treatise of Government'', Chapter V, paragraph 27.
See<ref name=Locke-1689-Two-II-5-§27/>
}} The [[Lockean proviso]] maintains that appropriation of unowned resources is a diminution of the rights of others to it, and would only be acceptable if it does not make anyone else worse-off.