Right of nature: self-preservation ("seek peace and follow it") - Man is naturally in a state of war without a common power to keep everyone in check. ... XVII Of the Causes, Generation, and Definition of Commonwealth - Hobbes concludes that there must be some common power, some sovereign authority, to force people to uphold the contract. ... - as if every man should say to every man, "I Authorize and give up my Right of Governing my selfe, to this Man, or to this Assembly of men, on this condition, that thou give up the right to him, and authorize all his actions in like matter - This ...

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To Locke the state of nature was "men living together according to reason without a common superior on earth, with authority to judge between them- (Chapter 19, Two Treatises). ... One can even sense that Locke is answering Hobbes, i.e. ... And the objective eye would look past the Fourth of July brouhaha and note that indeed very little did actually change from 1775 to 1782, other than power was centralized in the continental United States. ...

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It is important to note that at this time the idea of Independence from Britain was not a common one and there were strong feelings in America between British Loyalists and the Colonial revolutionists. ... However in January of 1776, Thomas Payne wrote a pamphlet (Common Sense) that strongly urged the colonial cause. ...

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