Locke's natural law theory holds that property rights are grounded in labor-mixing and reason, giving them determinate moral content prior to and independent of any civil government.

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Determinate moral content(as describing what property rights possess in Locke's view): Having a clear, specific moral meaning or value—rather than being vague or subjective, the moral status is definite and knowable.
John Locke(as a later developer of abstraction theory): An English philosopher (1632-1704) who argued that the human mind starts as a blank slate and learns everything through experience and sensory observation rather than being born with built-in knowledge.
Prior to and independent of civil government(as describing when and how Locke believes property rights exist): Existing before governments are formed and not depending on what any government says or decides—these rights are fundamental and belong to people naturally.
labor-mixing(Lockean property theory; treated in the passage as a metaphor rather than a literal physical process): The act of combining one's labor (an owned activity) with an external, unowned object, proposed by Locke as the basis for generating property rights over that object

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