EMERGENCE OF USA
FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES
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protect life liberty and Property
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fight wars against evil kings
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to provide roads, bridges and buildings
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to protect life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
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Detailed explanation-1: -He famously claimed that all human individuals have a right to life, liberty, and property. No sovereign, moreover, could legitimately infringe on those rights. For Locke, the preservation of individual rights is one of the driving reasons for entering into the social contract.
Detailed explanation-2: -The purpose of government, Locke wrote, is to secure and protect the God-given inalienable natural rights of the people. For their part, the people must obey the laws of their rulers.
Detailed explanation-3: -John Locke on the rights to life, liberty, and property of ourselves and others (1689) Found in The Two Treatises of Civil Government (Hollis ed.)
Detailed explanation-4: -The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule.
Detailed explanation-5: -A central argument made by Locke is that each individual has a natural right to life, liberty and property, even in the state of nature. These natural rights flow from natural law and are governed by it. These rights are pre-political and are, thus, in effect granted by God and held by every individual from birth.