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The Founding Fathers Intent

            The founding fathers of our government, and more specifically the writer of the constitution, Thomas Jefferson, was influenced primarily by Lockean ideas and principles which they related to much of their own self interests and some of the high principles to the creation of the constitution as well as the founding of the American republic. Although the founders" intent was very much inspired and motivated by the philosophical and moral principles of Locke, many of his core ideologies are extremely contradictory in nature. The founders supported the establishment of a new government which used Locke's ideas to shape a constitutional framework consistent with their economic and political interests. .
             " under the competitive capitalism of the nineteenth century America continued to be an arena for various grasping and contending interests, and the federal government continued to provide a stable and acceptable medium within which they could contend; further, it usually showed the wholesome bias on the behalf of property which the Fathers expected," (Hofstrader 20).
             Social contract theorist John Locke argued that governments" major responsibility was the preservation of private property and that men were born equal and with equal rights in nature; these rights cannot be annulled by any person or any thing. The three major characteristics of American government can be attributed to Locke. Popular consent, popular sovereignty and limited government can all be traced back to Locke's social contract theory. Under what Locke termed "social contract theory", the consent of the people is the only true basis of any sovereign's right to rule. This idea of popular consent is directly related to the concept of a legitimate government. Legitimacy is achieved through voting or some other sort of participation in the system. Locke understood the need of consent to preserve a legitimate government.


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