John Locke's take on the Social Contract was that he believed that a government could only be legitimate when based on a social contract with citizens. For Locke, the contract worked both ways; if the people agreed to give up some freedom then, the government would protect everyone's rights. ... Locke also taught that, natural rights are your God given rights. ... Locke's opinion on this was that these rights weren't given; you were born with them. ... Locke expanded the Social Contract to also mean to protect citizens from government....

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Some of these philosophes included John Locke who's main philosophy was that there was no such government under the Divine Right of Kings theory, Voltaire who's primary focus was individual liberty and Cesare Beccaria who was mainly against capital punishment and identified new directions in the system of criminal law. John Locke was strongly against the idea of having someone rule the country under Gods will. ... John Locke totally disagreed with this idea and said that the purpose of a government was to protect the natural rights of its citizens. ... I totally agree with Locke. ....

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In Lord of the Flies, many of the natural rights that John Locke proposed are addressed, breached, and sometimes even blatantly abused. ... Locke thought that without some system of checks and balances, the weak would be deprived of their three natural rights: life, liberty, and property. The first right that Locke proposed, the right to life, is certainly breached throughout the movie. ... Because Piggy is the symbol of civilization and order, killing him is evidence that Locke's natural rights are disregarded, and savagery takes its place. ... The right to property, as Hobbes and L...

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"A criminal who, having renounced reason...hath, by the unjust violence and slaughter he hath committed upon one, declared war against all mankind, and therefore may be destroyed as a lion or tiger, one of those wild savage beasts with whom men can have no society nor security" (John Locke). ...

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