Social liberty is the right to be under no legislative power other than that founded by the consent of a the commonwealth, and only benefiting the commonwealth. "And thus the commonwealth comes by a power to set down what punishment shall belong to the several transgressions they think worthy of it, committed amongst the members of that society, as well as it has the power to punish any injury done unto any of its members by any one that is not of it; and all this for the preservation of the property of all the members of that society, as far as is possible" (P. 49). America's democracy is parallel to these ideas because of how we choose our leader by voting, and voting on other issues that will be made for the commonwealth. John Locke's assumptions about natural rights shaped the creation of the United States constitution therefore making a lot of his ideas our way of life. On the subject of ruling a country, John Locke brings up a constant concern. Long-term office holders are dangerous because the longer a body rules the more important they feel and that will cause the body to think of themselves as separate from the society. .
Locke justifies rebelling against governments saying that because of natural rights the government must represent the people in their best interests. John Locke was obviously addressing Sir Robert Filmer because of his idea of a divine authority. It's the .
people that judge whether or not the leader of a country has overstepped his prerogative. "That ultimate determination to themselves which belongs to all mankind, where there lies no appeal on earth to judge, whether they have just cause to make their appeal to heaven. And this judgment they cannot part with, it being out of a man's power so to submit himself to another, as to give him a liberty to destroy him; God and nature never allowing a man so to abandon himself, as to neglect his own preservation" (P.