A national government, Locke argues, is a society “constituted only for the procuring, preserving, and advancing their own civil interests,” (Locke, 1991, p. 17). It is the job of the government to provide its citizens with execution of equal laws as well as ensuring citizens are receiving their right to possessions such as life, liberty, health, and freedom from pain of body, (Locke, 1991, p. 17). Furthermore, Locke strongly supported the notion that the government should have no say in how people choose to celebrate their own religion, for him, an integral part of a secular society is that government has not right to influence religion, and religion has no right to influence government, (Locke, 1991, p. 24). This was due to the fact that Locke felt as though supporting or not supporting a certain religion was claiming that one religion was more valid than another, which is not up to the government to decide, (Locke, 1991, p. 25). Locke goes further to explain that no one in the world, including the government, has the just power to remove peoples’ civil rights upon the pretense of religion, (Locke, 1991, p.…