What Did Locke Think Would Happen Without Government
SPEECH: QUESTION 1 UNIT 1
INTRO
“The only task of the government is protection of private property.” John Locke was an English Philosopher who lived through the early 1600s and was an essential individual that created the idea concerning “Life, Liberty, and Property.” The ideas from the Founders’ about government mainly consisted Locke’s writings.
1ST PARAGRAPH - What did Locke think would happen without government? A State of Nature is a society without government or laws. Locke believed when men became overpopulated enough to the point where land becomes scarce, then men needed law beyond the natural law. The natural law, although valid, was not kept. All men have the right to punish the transgressor. Civil society starts when, for the …show more content…
When the government decides to go ‘above and beyond,’ it most likely results in affliction to our rights. For example: Obamacare provided and forced people to buy health care. Should the people have health care? Of course they should have , but forcing people to buy something that they do not want and setting standards for the other insurance companies, limits the people’s rights to property. This will eventually becomes a big issue because when someone limits or takes away the right to property, people loose moral and are not therefore happy. One of the main purposes in life is to achieve your goals and be happy. Another issue is when the government taxes businesses more than need be. The businesses do not suffer from this. We do. They just raise the price on their products. The more the government taxes them the price just increases. And all those labels on products? We know when the food we are eating is terrible for us. Sure, in the progressive era there were some meatpacking problems, and we fixed those, but that was a problem with the company not the consumer. The labels are a little bit much. It just charges the people more. When government puts taxes on sugary drinks, people have the right to drink them. Yes, they shouldn’t drink them, but they have the right to. This is also a consumer issue, just taking away choice instead of protecting us from ‘bad companies’. The tariffs are ‘protecting’ the
INTRO
“The only task of the government is protection of private property.” John Locke was an English Philosopher who lived through the early 1600s and was an essential individual that created the idea concerning “Life, Liberty, and Property.” The ideas from the Founders’ about government mainly consisted Locke’s writings.
1ST PARAGRAPH - What did Locke think would happen without government? A State of Nature is a society without government or laws. Locke believed when men became overpopulated enough to the point where land becomes scarce, then men needed law beyond the natural law. The natural law, although valid, was not kept. All men have the right to punish the transgressor. Civil society starts when, for the …show more content…
When the government decides to go ‘above and beyond,’ it most likely results in affliction to our rights. For example: Obamacare provided and forced people to buy health care. Should the people have health care? Of course they should have , but forcing people to buy something that they do not want and setting standards for the other insurance companies, limits the people’s rights to property. This will eventually becomes a big issue because when someone limits or takes away the right to property, people loose moral and are not therefore happy. One of the main purposes in life is to achieve your goals and be happy. Another issue is when the government taxes businesses more than need be. The businesses do not suffer from this. We do. They just raise the price on their products. The more the government taxes them the price just increases. And all those labels on products? We know when the food we are eating is terrible for us. Sure, in the progressive era there were some meatpacking problems, and we fixed those, but that was a problem with the company not the consumer. The labels are a little bit much. It just charges the people more. When government puts taxes on sugary drinks, people have the right to drink them. Yes, they shouldn’t drink them, but they have the right to. This is also a consumer issue, just taking away choice instead of protecting us from ‘bad companies’. The tariffs are ‘protecting’ the