Limits must be put on freedom and inalienable rights. ... In Rousseau's Social Contract, man is depicted as a "stupid and unimaginative animal." ... A government where the power is limited and used to secure individual rights is necessary. ... A government is formed with the basic purpose to serve the rights of the common good of the people. Locke justifies revolution if the government is not protecting the rights of the subjects. ...
People will then behave according to the "laws of nature" which according to him include natural freedom and moral equality (also called their natural rights). ... John Locke also conceptualized the property rights idea. ... When this is applied to the state of nature where there is probably no law; such rights cannot be defended or even claimed. ... According to Thomas Hobbes, man living in a state of nature which lacks sovereign will be living like a beast or wild animal in the jungle. ... Therefore the establishment of the sovereign makes it possible for the lives of mankind to be protected...
Instead of the land peacefully being the shared the government saw the aboriginals signing the treaties as them signing to give up their full rights to the land, and so all the land that they owned was virtually taken right from underneath their feet. ... The Government felt that the Aboriginals were unable to take care of themselves and so they felt a responsibility to help them take care of their basic needs, yet treated them like unintelligent children and did not give them any rights. ...
