EMERGENCE OF USA
FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES
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The will of the people
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To end the state of nature and protect natural rights
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To create fair and equal laws
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To enforce laws upon everyone equally
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Detailed explanation-1: -Individuals nevertheless agree to form a commonwealth (and thereby to leave the state of nature) in order to institute an impartial power capable of arbitrating their disputes and redressing injuries.
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: -Locke believed that in a state of nature, no one’s life, liberty or property would be safe because there would be no government or laws to protect them. This is why people agreed to form governments. According to Locke, governments do no exist until people create them.
Detailed explanation-4: -John Locke For him, human nature is guided by tolerance and reason. The State of Nature is pre-political, but it is not pre-moral. Persons are assumed to be equal to one another in such a state, and therefore equally capable of discovering and being bound by the Law of Nature.