The 3 part of our constitution was that it's from the English Heritage like the Magna Carta, the experiences that we faced like when the May Flower Compact was created, and also the enlightenment when John Locke founded the idea of natural rights and for Baron de Montesquieu when he thought of the power should be separate among three branches. ... John Locke was the person who made it happen when he said that every person has rights before they were given birth and those are called the natural rights which separate in to three categories of life; liberty; and property. While Locke ide...

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In his Second Treatise of Civil Government, John Locke stated that "it is not without reason the [man] seeks out and is willing to join in society with others who are already united, or have a mind to unite for the mutual preservation of their lives, liberties, and estates, which I call by the general name - property." ... Based upon the fundamental ideals described by Locke and Madison, Charles Beard, in his essay Framing the Constitution, asserts that the framers of our Constitution were anxious, above everything else, to protect the rights of private property against any leveling tendencies...

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The framers read extensively on the writings of Enlightenment thinkers such as Locke and Montesquieu, applying their ideas into the constitution. John Locke's "Second Treatise- and his idea of the "social contract- was a major influence upon the construction of the constitution. ... The framers applied Locke's social contract, which guaranteed a human's inalienable rights to formation of the constitution. Also, Locke argued that revolution was not only a choice but in some cases an obligation when faced with tyranny. ... Under Chief Justice John Marshall, the role of the cour...

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The European Philosophers, John Locke, Jean Rousseau, and Baron de Montesquieu, all influenced the American government. Locke's theory, "All people have the inalienable right to life, liberty, and property" is what the American government is centered around. ...

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Tranquility can be conveyed through the certain beliefs of John Locke and Thomas Jefferson. Both believed that tranquility or soundness could be obtained through life, liberty, and for Locke property and Jefferson the pursuit of happiness. ... This is very similar to the situation in England in 1215 when King John was chased down and forced to sign the Magna Carta which limited the monarch's power. ... Locke and Harrington were both partisans of this idea in that Harrington said the separation of powers is a prerequisite for free government and Locke gave it a subsidiary role in his th...

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All of this came from an Englishman in the 1600's named John Locke. ... Locke came up with the first two powers, the legislative and executive, but the judicial power was thought up by a French philosopher Charles de Secondat sixty years after the writings of Locke. ... John Locke came up with this idea of splitting up the government. ...

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Yet the anthem of extreme individualism of the right to be armed marches on, paralleling the path forged by the Framer's of the Constitution from John Locke's The Second Treatise of Government. ... To paraphrase Hannah Pitkin's 1965 paper, Obligation and Consent I, "What matters to Locke is not really whether one has consented or contracted to obey a government, but whether the government deserves one's consent." ... A state of anarchy which if it followed the NRA and Locke's extreme state of nature philosophy during the Shay's Rebellion in1786, woul...

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Joseph Mallonee FRE Essay #2 Dr. Reeves AP U.S. History The American Revolution represented a radical alteration in American political ideas and institutions. American thinkers and political leaders came up with new ideas about what democracy should look like. They also created new institution...

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In England, the nobles rebelled against King John and forced him to sign the Magna Carta. ... This was also important in the development of Western Political thought because Western Political thought was that of a democratic government, and an Enlightment thinker, John Locke, indicated that " a government's power comes from the people- Western Political thought was based on several essential ideas and parts about democracy. ...

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The merits of the Montesquieu did not turn up until The Federalist; and although a perverse argument could be made that Madison's ideal was truly in the tradition of John Locke's Second Treatise of Government, the Locke whom the American rebels treated as an honorary president was a pluralistic defender of vested rights, not of parliamentary supremacy. ...

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One of the basic tenets of American democracy is that the majority rules. But, another tenet is that the minority is protected. This is the overlying theme concerning the upcoming Supreme Court case Lawrence and Garner v. Texas, where the Supreme Court may use its power of judicial review to overtur...

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The framers of the Constitution of the United States faced the dual challenge of providing a system strong enough to protect the citizens, while assuring that the citizens would not be oppressed. Ideas for the Constitution were borrowed from centuries of experience including the Magna Carta, Eng...

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The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions, as they were known, used the ideas of John Locke to argue that the federal government had been formed by a contract among the states and possessed only certain delegated powers. ...

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John Locke, an English philosopher from the Enlightenment era, stated that all citizens were entitled at birth to life, liberty and property. Locke also stated that if the government revoked any of these natural rights at any point it was the peoples" duty to rebel, it was unjust cruelty. ...

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The whole idea of the United States was not to be put under the power of a government like the British which they had painstakingly fought against in the Revolutionary War which would make sense since many of the antifederalists were revolutionaries like Sam Adams or John Hancock. The federalists on the other hand compromised of the educated and rich who felt that the government should be more Hobbes instead of Locke where there must be restraint to have liberty protected. ... Any doubts that the people had concerning the Constitution were addressed by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James M...

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Politics: Politics is the authoritative allocation of values for a society; who gets what, when and how, in a society. Government: A permanent structure composed of decision makers who make society's rules about conflict resolution and the allocation of resources and who possess the power to enfo...

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It has the following key features: (i) It is a written document which has its origins in John Locke's notion of - Limited government' (a) laws are written and knowable (b) the property rights of citizens take precedent over government (ii) Madisonian Model rests on federal government with three distinctive branches: • the Legislature (House of Representatives and Senate is Congress) • the Executive (President plus executive departments) • the Judiciary (the most influenti...

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America's governmental system mostly follows John Lockes" idea about the dispersion of power. ... Locke also believed that in diffusing the power the consequences would be a stronger liberty for each individual. ...

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Attorney General John Ashcroft's statement declaring that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms, irrespective of any ties to a state militia, has raised a debate over the Founding Fathers" true intentions for the Second Amendment. ... In Federalist Paper No. 28, based on the theories of John Locke, Hamilton articulates that when a government is no longer working for the good of the people but has become tyrannical and is oppressing a majority of the population, the people have no choice but to exercise their right to self-defense and rebellion. ...

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The first amendment has survived more than two-hundred years, without being modified. The finite history of the first amendment proves its significance and role in America. It prohibits the establishment of a nation-wide religion, and guarantees freedom of worship, speech, press and to peaceable a...

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The First Amendment is part of America's Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution. It is the first 10 amendments. Amendments are rights that we didn't add to the constitution. There were two groups, The Federalists and Anti-Federalists. The Federalists wanted the Constitutio...

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John Locke was the first to propose the idea that individuals are borne with natural rights prior to the existence of government and it is the government that ought to safeguard those rights. ... Statesman, diplomat, legislature and future president Thomas Jefferson, undoubtedly influenced by Locke, Smith and Paine issued the Declaration of Independence, which led to the eventual adoption of Libertarian principles. ...

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