This question only comes up when the answer is no, and so I ask again, are people free? ... This is taken from the Declaration of Independence written over two hundred years ago. ... When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, and when the founding fathers agreed upon the constitution, they fought for their rights. ... Whenever freedom is questioned, whenever there is a fight for freedom, the human mind is stirred. ...

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John Locke is one of the founders of "liberal" political philosophy, the philosophy of individual rights and limited government. This is the philosophy on which the American Constitution and all western political systems today are based. In the Second Treatise of Government, Locke's most important p...

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All of these possibly interesting questions, and will we ever know why exactly? ... King wrote in his letter " the pen of Jefferson etched the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence-, (821) in absolute praise of so great a work done by an honest, white politician. ...

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This should be regarded as necessary reading for answering the Questions on Locke and Burke. ... A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another, there being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of Nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another, without subordination or subjection, unless the lord and master of them all should, by any manifest declaration of his will, set one above another, and confer on him, by an...

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