... perform if man has a sense of politeness concerning his own commodities. His will consequently eradicate the power of the sovereign's rule. Each individual has the right to his own possessions, protected from other men by the sovereign. The most fundamental flaw that could undermine the function of the commonwealth is if the people distribute power among one another. Reasoning that powers ... ...

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... parts in today's constitution. Canada and the United States use his ideas on civil liberties and the will of the people in today's modern liberal democracies. Today, Lockes ideas have protected the rights of men and women rather than throwing them away and leaving them to rot. The most important factor in this form of liberalism is making the government accountable ... ...

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... -product of the whole process. Property in political society is secure against other subjects but, given the fact that sovereignty must be absolute in Hobbes' political society, it is not protected from the whims of the sovereign. However, this is the maximum level of security that one is able to achieve according to Hobbesian theory. In contrast for Locke, a large degree ... ...

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... -2). This desire for power is what causes warring factions and he later goes on to say that the only way to ensure that the property of men of character is protected from a person who is striving to steal it for dishonest reasons is to have a way to decide which party is in the right so as to keep the peace and ... ...

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... . Locke views government as essential to the evolution of a civil society in which the inconveniences of the state of nature are rejected while the safety and security men desire are protected by government. Therefore, the people, as part of the social contract, have a duty to obey the laws instituted by government and to accept the concept of majority rule as fundamental ... ...

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... speech, proprietary rights, etc, are God-given rights that people have since they are born. Therefore, the reason for why people enter the society is to get their natural rights protected. As John Locke says in his work, "the state of nature is the state of the freedom to made any action and order their possessions in what ever way they ... ...

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