What is the purpose of society according to Locke?
What recourse do individuals have if the leaders of a society abuse their power or fail to fulfill those goals for which the society was established. Also, think about why Americans would have found Lockes words in support of the British government useful in their eventual rebellion against the British government. Chapter II: Of the State of Nature We must consider what state all men are naturally [originally] in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit… without depending on the will of any other man. A state also of equality wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another…. Chapter VII: Of Political or Civil Society Whenever… any number of men are so united into one society, as to quit everyone his executive power of the law of nature, and to resign it to the public, there and there only is a political, or civil society. And this is done, wherever any numb
