... The US Constitution is a liberal document. One reason why is the separation of branches, it limit the power of all three branches, by a system of "checks and balances". (The US Constitution) The19th century was a goriest time for liberalism, the US's Constitution add new ... (The US Constitution p. 49) The early Liberalism can founded in the writing of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan, John Locke's Two Treatises on Government, and Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations Thomas Hobbes write in the Leviathan, what he thinks is need for a government to work. He talks about how ... the reason they rebel...

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... . The questions arose, why do we need government, what is the purpose of government and what will government accomplish? Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and John Locke (1632-1704), both had their personal views on the answers to these questions. In "The Leviathan" written by Thomas Hobbes in 1651, he describes how selfish people act in the state of nature without government and why a government is so ... important. In chapter 13, he supports his argument by stating that humans are equal both mentally and physically and the weakest human has enough strength ... from breaking their contact, as ...

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