Hobbes's construction of the state, as a nominalist hypothesis, begins with the division of history into two categories; "natural history," which is the effects of nature, and the history of plants, animals and countries, and the implications to man-kind. ... Through such hypothesis Hobbes is able to define man, and build a an argument of man and the common-wealth based upon his natural animal instincts. ... Hobbes views the "right of nature" as a position in which his actions under the "state of nature" bestow certain rights, with mans behaviour being unrestrained, their actions are ...

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He explains that an Athenian earns his freedom and citizenship by subduing his animal instincts and passions. ... Each citizen could speak and each citizen had a vote, but Constant states the political rights to vote should not be valued higher than the individual liberties of modern democracies. ...

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He notes that man is a violent animal who likes conflict, and suggests in both essays that the only way to solve these factions is to allow for a society where many of them form such that they limit each other's powers. ... In Essay #10, Madison tackles the question of how to deal with factions whose interests or goals may be in contention with the people's rights. As he would later acknowledge in Essay #51, Madison believed that forming one big and powerful republic was the ultimate answer to providing all these rights. ...

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Locke agrees with Rousseau, that man is free naturally, but also adds that people are entitled to three undeniable rights: life, liberty and property. ... Rousseau believed that in the State of Nature, humans had two base feelings, compassion and pity; he argued that these two feelings were most natural and that these feelings could even be found in animals. ... Locke's essential argument is that people are born equal, with natural rights in a state of nature in which they live free from outside rule. ... According to Locke this Law of Reason restrains men from infringing on the rights of...

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The Social Contract is meant to unfetter each individual, each irrational "animal," and help man to fully know his freedom by using self-control and by signing himself over to the civil state: to the communal movement towards the common good, directed by the general will (Book I: VIII 185). ... No one person has any rights that are different from another, and the rights of each individual within this unified body must be in agreement with the state. ... By strict enforcement of the guidelines that will allow land occupancy by an individual and/or individuals grouped together, even in cases ...

• Word Count: 7115
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The Social Contract is meant to unfetter each individual, each irrational "animal," and help man to fully know his freedom by using self-control and by signing himself over to the civil state: to the communal movement towards the common good, directed by the general will (Book I: VIII 185). ... No one person has any rights that are different from another, and the rights of each individual within this unified body must be in agreement with the state. ... By strict enforcement of the guidelines that will allow land occupancy by an individual and/or individuals grouped together, even in cases ...

• Word Count: 7114
• Approx Pages: 28
• Grade Level: Undergraduate