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A 5 page paper which examines how the ideas of John Locke were put into the Declaration of Independence, The Rights of Man and the Citizen, and the Declaration of Independence of Vietnam. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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may, or may not, work for their particular visions as a culture. The United States, the founding fathers, clearly looked to many of the old philosophers in trying to come
up with a system of government that would afford the people many rights, while still maintaining a strong central government. One of the influences for the development of the Declaration
of Independence for the United States was John Locke. And, with the Declaration of Independence from the United States other nations have been influenced, through the foundations first seen with
Locke, to incorporate the same or similar ideas. The following paper examines the influence that John Locke, in his Second Treatise of Government," has influenced the Declaration of Independence for
the United States, The Rights of Man and the Citizen, and the Declaration of Independence for Vietnam. Inspiring Governments: John Locke In first understanding how John Locke influence
nations to develop their own governments with the needs of the people in mind it is important to first examine what he said. The document that is the Second Treatise
of Government is incredibly detailed and as such just one small portion will be presented, a portion that relates well to the foundations of the government documents being discussed. Locke
states, in his Second Treatise of Government, Chapter XI, the following: "THE great end of mens entering into society, being the enjoyment of their properties in peace and safety, and
the great instrument and means of that being the laws established in that society; the first and fundamental positive law of all commonwealths is the establishing of the legislative power;
as the first and fundamental natural law, which is to govern even the legislative itself, is the preservation of the society, and (as far as will consist with the public
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