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A 6 page research paper that offers a one-page synopsis on political theories formulated by Edmund Burke, John Locke, John Rawls, Robert Nozick, John Stuart Mill, and John Dewey. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Burke expressed the opinion that the French Revolution had gone too far and crossed over from political concerns into barbarity. Burke was appalled by the efforts of French revolutionaries
to disconnect themselves from everything that had occurred in their countrys past, to create a society from "scratch." Burke writes that it is vital for a society to retain
"a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission" (Burke). In other words, Burke felt that it was vital for a society to preserve a sense of its
past. Also in Reflections, Burke expresses the opinion that rule by the "masses" is a threat to civil society. Burke felt that the democratic governance established by the French Revolution
was no substitute for the accumulated wisdom of the past. What this stance overlooks, of course, is the fact that the French monarchy prior to the Revolution misused its power,
which caused extreme hardship for the citizenry. Furthermore, democracies since the time of the French Revolution have shown unequivocally that "rule by the masses" can be beneficial. John Locke/Two
Treatises of Government In the late seventeenth century, John Locke published his Two Treaties of Government. In his Second Treatise, Locke proposed what was a radical and revolutionary idea for
the time, which was that an absolute monarchy was not an adequate form of governance because it contained no means by which individuals could appeal to a known authority to
redress perceived defaults in government -- "for he being suppose to have all, both legislative and executive power in himself alone, there is no judge to be found" (Locke). Furthermore,
Locke disputed the "divine right of Kings," asserting that a monarch was existed in a "state of nature" along with the rest of humanity (Locke). Locke saw freedom as being
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