The French sought to end their own political injustices, although freedom within the monarchy would have to be established in France because there was no place other than France they wished to go. ... The fourth point explains, "Liberty consists of the power to do whatever is not injurious to others; thus the enjoyment of every man has for its limits only those that assure other members of society the enjoyment of those same rights; such limits may be determined only by law" (175). ...

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They lived in fear for whatever they did, because of the fear of what their harsh ruler will and his their punishment would be. ... John Locke is known as one of the most influential philosophers he had to do with so many revolutions that if he was in here we don't even know what would so be not going on in those countries because of him we have what to him was almost a basic form of a democracy yet there was still a King but with those ideas it allowed so many countries to become more constitutionalize allowing people to live a better life to have their say in the government and to actua...

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In other words, if a law enforcement official felt terrorist activity was to potentially occur, he or she was permitted to do whatever possible to gather information about the potential risk. ... These fishing expeditions are searches that can go through anybody's personal records, including completely innocent citizens that aren't even suspected of terrorist activity in order to find information. ... Everybody dreads going to the airport and having their bodies frisked and patted down, but usually object with a meager quiet mutter as they walk away. ...

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To the Anti-Federalists, liberty meant that you had a say in what was going on, and there is no supreme ruler or force that is telling you what to do. ... This basically means that if the states have a conflict of laws, whatever the federal government writes into law rules over what the states previously had. ... They thought that the liberty was going to be taken away from the people because of all the power the federal government was about to get. ...

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Same goes for the Anti-Apartheid movement. ... Since we, the people, make up the government it is our responsibility to ensure our government represents our interests and if not, dealt with in whatever manner necessary to ensure our rights and freedoms are respected and protected from a corrupt government....

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It is highly unlikely that the king could have done such damage to the colonies but it would not be unbelievable if some ravaging or destroying had been going on because they were in the middle of a war. ... Whatever the government said, the majority of the population did without question. ...

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According to Plato's Crito, "Whatever the popular view is, and whether the alternative is pleasanter than the present one or even harder to bear, the fact remains that to do wrong is in every sense bad and dishonorable for the person who does it"(911). Crimes should not go unpunished and should not be protected under our rights to liberty. ...

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In order to understand why these founding fathers would go to such lengths to separate themselves from Britain, after all they were committing treason by creating this Declaration, we have to go back in time to the French and Indian War, most commonly known in Europe as the Seven Years War, (1754-1763) and the aftermath. ... Whatever may be the consequences, we must risk something; if we do not, all is over". ...

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He describes the "Nature of Man" as "souls of wicked men" and that they would be going to hell. ... Although there are negatives to faith groups forming their own parties, the same goes for all these current parties. ...

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Long before any major Patriot uprisings developed, Richard Henry Lee had his foot in the door, willing to do whatever it was going to take to restore reason and justice between Britain and the colonies. ...

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During the late 1700's, two great revolutions occurred, the American Revolution and the French Revolution. These two historical events happened at the same time, but had a great number of differences and very little similarity. When French Revolution occurred, it turned into a very violent and blood...

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Given our equal status, and his prior reasoning that human appetite is mechanical, Hobbes deduces that when two people in the state of nature go after the same limited resource the natural result is war, "If any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies; and in the way to their End, (which is principally to their own conservation and sometimes their delectation only), endeavor to destroy, or subdue one another."" ...

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LIBERTARIANISM Two hundred and twelve years ago thirty nine signatures spoke, gracing its delicate spaceless yet palatial surface with the ease and wave of a single downy bowed quill. Seventeen hundred and eighty seven was the year that the most momentous document in the United States history as well as posterity was created, approved and just two years later instituted as the foundation for a fledging yet promising nation destined for greatness. It was a great concept envisioned by extraordinary men, a system in which the people of the land reign, governing through democratically ...

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