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A 10 page paper which examines the relevance of property according to these two influential political philosophers, specifically considering how they agreed and disagreed with each other. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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boldly described in the Declaration of Independence that man was entitled to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," happiness was translated to mean property. This was because much
of the Founding Fathers had been profoundly influenced by the political philosophy of Englishman John Locke (1632-1704). Locke believed passionately in the rights of man in accordance with natural
law, and much of the U.S. Constitution echoes his sentiments. Men like Washington, Jefferson, and Madison were the sons of plantation owners so they regarded property as their entitlement.
To them, property represented a physical stake in society, and was, therefore, as essential a human right as food, clothing, and shelter. The rhetoric that exalted property ownership
may have been theirs but the concepts themselves were directly attributed to John Locke. Following in Lockes footsteps was Irishman Edmund Burke (1729-1797), a conservative political philosopher who also
placed an extremely high importance on property, and believed it to be an integral part of the sociopolitical contract between citizen and government. In Lockes second treatise, An
Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent and End of Civil Government, he reiterated his position that, "Each person has a natural right to hold property" (Child, 1990, p. 578).
For him, it was an inherent and instinctive part of human nature. In Chapter 5, "Of Property," Locke stated in section 24 that it is "natural reason, which tells
us that men, being once born, have a right to their preservation" (Locke, 1998). He then goes on, in section 25, to illustrate how private ownership is perfectly acceptable
in nature. He writes, "God, who hath given the world to men in common, hath also given them reason to make use of it to the best advantage of
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