John Locke's Purpose Of Government

John Locke was an english philosopher who thought about why it was necessary to have a government. He wrote many compendiums about his views on government. These writings included the purposes of government, the theory of a social contract, the idea of a state of nature, and natural rights that all people have. These ideas and writings influenced how our founders framed the constitution. According to John Locke, government gets its right to govern through a social contract from the people. A social contract is an agreement of people to come and govern themselves. In a social contract everyone promises to give up the absolute right to do anything they want. In return, the government protects the rights of the people, the ones that the people