Locke

John Locke has a good idea of how we should make our government. His ideas of this natural state, seems similar to how we wanted our Constitution to come across to people. Locke breaks it down by saying what do you humans do naturally? And our law should be based around this. Whatever freedoms are person would have naturally like the pursuit of happiness and the right to own property should be made law. People should be granted natural rights such as these because everyone was created equal and are able to exercise these natural rights. Just like in nature, when someone does some sort of wrong to us, we are then entitled to hold these offenders accountable and makes me think of the expression, “an for an eye.” However at the same time people also feel like they may have too much power if the are given so much freedom and Locke picks up on this. One great example of this when people first go off to college. Sometimes students don’t know what to do with so much freedom and so they end up messing up their lives, people don’t know how to handle their parents not telling them what to do and this sometimes leads to people getting poorer grades than what they used to get or getting too involved with the party scene and sometimes are asked to leave their institution.