katy anderson john locke presentation
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WHO READ LOCKE?
• The founding fathers• Especially….Thomas Jefferson & John Adams. • Locke captured the American mindset• Inspiration for the Declaration of Independence
NATURAL RIGHTS
• “Life, Liberty, and Property”• The American mindset
• A “conservative revolutionary”• Collective power should be entrusted to a system
of government.
REBELLION
• Belief in community • Ability to revoke government authority by no
longer placing trust in them.• “The legislative cannot transfer the power of making
laws to any other hands: for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others.”
• Second Treatise on Government, John Locke.
HOW GOVERNMENT SHOULD OPERATE
• “The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws to any other hands: for it being but a delegated power from the people, they who have it cannot pass it over to others.”
• Second Treatise on Government, John Locke
• 3 stages:• The state of nature, which states that every person has the
natural right and the ability to control their “executive power of the law of nature.”
• In reference to the community. This comes prior to having a “collective power entrusted to a system of government.”
• The “commonwealth.” This stage examines the way by which the community gathers to make a “majority vote” to decide to allocate, “its executive power of the law of nature to a system of government, for it to exercise on the community’s behalf so long as the trust continues.”
PROPERTY RIGHTS
• “So when he takes something from the state that nature has provided and left it in, he mixes his labour with it, thus joining to it something that is his own; and in that way he makes it his property.”
• Second Treatise on Government, John Locke.
JOHN LOCKE TODAY
• Influence on any and all property rights• Whatever you put your labor into is in fact your own
property
• Community and government• Much more complicated now – larger populations,
political parties, etc.
• “All men are born free and equal”• Progress still being made.
• Natural rights to life, liberty and property are simple ideas that helped the United States grow into the thriving nation that it is today.
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