... order was all the religion that need be demanded of free people. Thomas Jefferson also echoed Locke in the Declaration of Independence and in later pronouncements defending revolutions, attacking paternalistic government, and upholding free expression of unpopular opinions. In France, Locke's philosophy was taken over by the leaders of the French Enlightenment, notably by the author and philosopher Voltaire. ... the state should be supreme over the church and demanded universal religious toleration, abolition of censorship, lenient punishment of criminals, and a strong state acting only...

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... . This is man's sovereign right to the power of nature is the power of God, which has sovereign right over all things and it is a sovereign law to self-preserve. The only tool to do this given to man through nature is his ˜unaided impulses of desire' (Spinoza, 1951) it is man's ... state of ˜Warre' with every man against every man. He likens this state to that of a constant civil war under which people have lived under a government and suddenly descend into complete anarchy as there is no overarching power to contain them. During this, Hobbes instead of suggesting that reason is n...

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... , and that these laws are meant to try and close the gap between the rich and the poor through the engagement of mutual help between the classes through gratitude (4th Law), and the encouragement of each person to be sociable to one another by being willing to give up what they do not need in order to help fulfill the needs ... continuous war, or a state in which laws are set in place to decrease the level of competitiveness between its citizens. In Macpherson's article he is a believer that this sort of government based upon individualistic ideals leads to a state without governance th...

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