1. Rousseau's and Hobbes' Natural State Theories
The founders had a view of human nature. They wanted to use their views of freedom and equality to shape this country. The founders believed that as created beings we all have god endowed rights and a duty to protect and use them. And all humans have rational choice to do this and through rational c...
Even the famous Alexis de Tocqueville recognized the prejudices in American democracy but noted its greatness as well; "I confess that in America I saw more than America; I sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or hope from its progress" (Ball, p.45). ...