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This 3 page paper considers how mankind has given up some personal rights in exchange for the benefits of being governed. Law, however, continues to protect many of our rights. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Modern society rests on a balance between personal freedom and government restriction. That balance is something that has been considered
by philosophers practically since the beginning of mans reign on earth. Seventeenth century philosophers, in particular, devoted their minds and hearts to the questions of liberty, freedom, and equality.
John Locke, a name associated with being the founder of British empiricism, Enlightenment and the belief that there is an inherent goodness in mankind, was one of these philosophers.
Lockes social contract theory has particular interest when it is considered in regard to the criminal justice system and private security. Locke
believed that no one individual had the right to harm another, either in life, health, liberty or possessions. To Locke the state was formed through contract, or common agreement
between individuals. It was this common agreement, this social contract, which formed the law and in order to work people had to choose to live within the law of
nature. Lockes beliefs thus encompassed the view that each individual was free to execute and interpret the laws of nature but
that such an approach would not work in the long run and would result in anarchy. To resolve the inherent certainty that anarchy would result if man simply lived
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