... , and politics at a young age. (Jensen, 1960, vii) This early introduction fostered an interest, desire and talent for government work. In 1948 at the age of 29, despite a lack of experience, Machiavelli was appointed to serve as the second chancellor of the Florentine republic, engaging in diplomatic missions through France, Germany as well as Italy. From his observations ... desires of self-preservation, security, and happiness."" (1982, 46) The Prince was the product of Machiavelli's frustration with Italy's unrelenting political turmoil and the emergence of a new government in Florenc...

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... are sent to this world by His command. Thus, he felt that humans are His property and are put into this world to serve Him and please Him and serve His interests, not one another's. All men should be restrained from invading another's rights and from causing hurt to one another. ... more truly a political contract, since it in the end, establishes a political society. It is not a contract to be made with any government which is to be set up later. So, this contract is the first step towards gaining trust of the people, because the people after forming a society must then institute ... , ...

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... the people, in chains. This is a prison of law and order which societies put up around us to sustain their power. Any form of ordered government does this by taking the power away from the people. However such vast power ultimately corrupts the governments. These corrupt governments no longer function in the ... over the people. The senate who were chosen from the people, by the people, to serve the people wound up tainted by greed and lust for power. When a young, power hungry Julius Caesar stole power of government from the senate and created an empire, he was betrayed and murdered. T...

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... his decisions in a timely, and proper fashion as to serve the public good as good as he can. The third reason is that with a Monarchy there is no problems with conflicting points of view that can arise from government with more than one. This is good because when there ... should be for the good of the people. Lastly we come to Rousseau. Rousseau in his book defines what he calls government as an intermediate body set up between the subjects and the sovereign, to secure their mutual correspondence, charged with the execution of the laws and the ... maintenance of liberty, both civil an...

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... need executive power to protect their property and defend their liberty. 2. Locke wrote and developed the philosophy that there was no legitimate government under the divine right of kings" theory. The theory argued that certain kings ruled because they were chosen by God to do ... of his contract, the people have the right to dissolve their government, if that government ceases to work solely in their best interest. The government has no sovereignty of its own--it exists to serve the people. When a government did not protect those rights, the citizen had the right and ... interests. Our...

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