Could someone please elaborate on the abstract political theories of John Locke?
Locke stated that government serves the people and not the other way around. Rousseau voiced the same idea. http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/joh… The Moral Role of Government According to Locke, political power is the natural power of each man collectively given up into the hands of a designated body. The setting up of government is much less important, Locke thinks, than this original social–political “compact.” A community surrenders some degree of its natural rights in favor of government, which is better able to protect those rights than any man could alone. Because government exists solely for the well-being of the community, any government that breaks the compact can and should be replaced. The community has a moral obligation to revolt against or otherwise replace any government that forgets that it exists only for the people’s benefit.