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This 6 page paper focuses on the concept of liberalism, citing Locke's version of the ideology. Additionally, many battles in France during the latter part of the eighteenth, and throughout the nineteenth century, are noted. The differences between radicals and liberals in France are discussed.
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government must meet the need of individuals, but once it meant the resistance of government encroachment on individuals liberties (Safire 407). In examining liberalism, Locke is primarily in the latter
camp, but one can also see traces of the former as well. Locke writes: "there being nothing more evident, than that the creatures of the same species and rank,
promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another without subordination or subjection" (Locke PG). There
is nothing clearer than that. Locke certainly supports freedoms for all and embraces the supposition that all men are created equal. It is interesting that Locke, a deep thinker, adds
one qualification. He notes that all men are equal but provides the following exception:"unless the lord and master of them all should, by any manifest declaration of his will, set
one above another, and confer on him, by an evident and clear appointment, an undoubted right to dominion and sovereignty" (Locke PG). Here, it seems, he likely refers to a
higher being appointing a man in charge and making him better than others. Perhaps he is thinking of biblical characters who were given more powers than their peers because God
deemed it so. In any event, it appears that there is justification for others to rule, despite the inherent encroachment on the equality issue. And of course, in most
political ideologies, it is agreed that the rule of law is necessary. Locke, while contending that man needs freedom also says that he must be controlled, and the authority
for that control comes from God. In some way, that philosophical position is weak. It goes against the logic usually found in philosophy. Locke sees God as calling the shots.
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