History Paper Prompt

This document has a very distinct pathetic appeal created by the passion and determination for freedom. For example, Stanton says, “In the covenant of marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband... the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty.” This sentence conveys to the readers that women are nothing but servants to their “master.” It also shows how women are just known as “objects” that men can use.

Lastly, Roger Williams is a strong supporter of religious liberty. Religious liberty is another example on how Williams believed the people should be able to practice their own religion, not have it decided by the government. He protests that “civil authority should be limited to civil matters and that magistrates had no jurisdiction over the soul” (174). Meaning that the government does not have the right to enforce religious duties on people, to let them believe on their own. Williams put it as wanting to “build a wall of separation between state and church in order to keep the holy and pure religion of Jesus Christ from contamination by the slightest taint of earthly support” (Miller 174). This was the main argument of Williams that caused him to become unwelcome in both Plymouth and Boston. John Winthrop did not oppose to dissent just that there needed to be limits set. He worried that if dissent was not kept within bounds, it would undermine the community and that integrity of the community demanded religious conformity. Winthrop believes challenges to religious authority could undermine the political

Natural and Moral Liberty. In the seventeenth century, John Winthrop represented himself as a wise and glorious politician. He focused people’s attention on his speech in 1645 when started it with an idea of liberty. The tension between authority and freedom inspired

Natural liberty leads to the evils in the society and make individuals even worse, because it allows everyone to do what they please, good and bad. Moral liberty, which Winthrop agrees with, is defined by rules, laws, policies of society and help in the development of

Constitution. John Locke’s belief of “life, liberty, and property” was the most influence on the American. Beside the Magna Carta, Petition of Rights, and English Bill of Rights, Locke also has a great influence of limit government. Locke’s Social Contract theory was to protect the basic rights of the people, it for the right of citizens to revolt against their king. Social contract is a convention between men that aims to discard the state of nature. According to Locke, the State of Nature is a state of perfect and complete liberty to behavior one's life as one best perceives fit, and free from the interfering of others. Also from Locke’s view of State of Nature, he believes it was given by

Mankind has been fighting for Liberty and Freedom for as long as we can remember. Liberty and freedom has been a topic which has been debated for many decades. What does it mean to be free , and how far can we go to strive for freedom. These important questions have been answered and studied by two of the greatest English philosophers, John Locke and John Stuart Mill. Locke and Mill men will attempt to uncover the mysteries of Liberty and Freedom and unveil the importance of being free. This essay will look at John Locke’s principle works” Second Treatise of government” and John Stuart Mills. “ On Liberty and Other Essays”. This essay will attempt to compare and contrast Lockes ideology on Liberty and Freedom to that of Mill.

CM: The striking similarity to Jefferson’s claim to “certain unalienable Rights... [of] Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” is blatantly obvious; the parallels in these two pieces that guarantee these irrevocable rights are almost word for

While reading the “The Second Treatise of Government,” you can notice and see that John Locke has a strong standing for civil rights as well as helping with the development of the Constitution of the United States. He states that the “consent of the governed,” is basically saying that communities are not put together by the divine right or ruled by. Paternal, familial, and political are types of powers that John Locke mentions that have all have unlike characteristics. He inspired others to believe in and want equal rights and democracy. John Locke talks about the state of nature, which basically states that no one has the power to be ruler of someone, as well as they are able to do what they want in a freely matter. In other words people are born just like anyone else that is born, and should have equally rights to property, health, and liberty, and that no one should have the power over anyone. Everyone should be able to live and enjoy his or her own freedom and wellbeing. However, the state of nature is not a guarantee to have natural laws, which could help with the protecting of one’s property. According to him having your own personal freedom was the true meaning of state of nature. John Locke thought that people were following his faith in human rationality through the declaration of Locke. John Locke states that if the government takes away from others for them to empower them then the people have right and opportunity to go against

Ironically, "Sarah was formally chastised in print by Catherine Beecher, a prominent educator who objected not only to her position for immediate abolition but also to her "unwomanliness" in defending it in public (Intro.Pg1046). This pushed Sarah to her highest limitations and encouraged her to write Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman. Sarah angry at the way woman has been treated, makes a powerful statement-hoping woman will wake up. She writes, "Women has inflicted an injury upon herself by submitting to be thus regarded; and she is now called upon to rise from the station where man, not God, has placed her, and claim those sacred and inalienable rights, as a moral and responsible being, with which her Creator has invested her (Letters on the Equality of Sexes Pg.1053 col.2)

The seventeenth century was full of challenges; political, social, and economical. Across the board individuals struggled to live, although the conditions had much improved from the beginning of the colonies. Women in particular had a difficult time fitting into this patriarchal this society. Women were defined by men and were seen as an accessory to men. In the colony of New England women were learning how to have a silent voice, while still maintaining the proper role of time. The way women were seen by men, who ran the colony, and the way men thought, not only about women, but also about the world would sculpt the society and the

When starting a new colony, John Winthrop had a perfect utopia set up in his mind. Everyone would get along with each other, everyone would be compassionate and helpful to everyone in the community, and most of all, they would be a society based on relations and not God. Winthrop realizes the various social classes people fit into, but he hopes that his ‘city upon a hill’ will unite everyone and make them all equal, regardless of social status. He hopes that the people who are in the colony are good people, who will help anyone who needs it, when they need it. Last of all, he hopes that the colony will ‘keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace’ in order to become the ‘city upon a hill’ that he wants to be.

The life of a colonial woman in the 17th and 18th century was demanding at best. Women had little to no rights such as: the right to vote, the right to hold and form of public office, or the right to serve on juries. Yet, widowed or unmarried women were able to make a will, buy or sell property, act as a guardian, and had the right to sue or be sued. If a widow had no children, she received one-half interest in the personal property of her deceased husband or one-third if she had children. When a woman married, she was completely enslaved to her husband. Everything that she had once possessed herself now belong to him. This also means the children they conceived legally belonged to their father. The rights for married women dwindled down even less than unmarried women or widows. Married women could not make a will without the consent of her

Seven years later, Everell still defies Puritan communal principles as he defends Magawisca’s innocence in the kidnapping of Hope Leslie by saying, “‘…impossible; justice, gratitude, humanity, forbid it. My father – Governor Winthrop, you will not surely suffer this outrage.’” (234). Governor Winthrop responds to Everell’s interference when he says, “‘You will do well, young Mr. Fletcher, to bridle your zeal; private feelings must yield to the public good…and it is somewhat bold in you to oppose the course of justice – to intermeddle with the public welfare – to lift your feeble judgment against the wisdom of Providence…’” (234). Sedgwick uses the Governor’s response to Everell to show that an individual in a Puritan society is unable to interfere with Puritan leadership even when justice is on the line.

The statement of “natural liberty” can be considered that people have their own rights to do what they want wither it is right or wrong. “Incompatible and inconsistence with authority” (75) is how Winthrop describes his feelings towards “natural” liberty. The use of the words suggest the idea that having “natural” liberty cannot be controlled, therefore creating a dangerous atmosphere without boundaries. Winthrop also considers “natural” liberty to be dangerous because as individuals grow to use this tool of knowledge it can grow to be more dangerous to a person than it was once before causing a change in character towards a more negative outlook. He states, “The exercise and maintain of this liberty makes men grow more evil and in time to be worse that brute beasts…” (75). Aside from the ideas of not having boundaries or the use of “natural” liberty, Winthrop considers “natural” liberty to be dangerous because it’s against God rights. Winthrop states, “that wild beast, which all the ordinances of God are bent against it, to restrain and subdue it” (75). All in All Winthrop considers “natural” liberty dangerous because it is the “enemy of truth and peace”

One of the first ways Winthrop defines justice is by acknowledging that God has established differences among societies for a reason, and that some members were created to be poor while others were chosen to be powerful and rich. According to Winthrop, these different levels of wealth and power are a necessity in forming a strong society, and that even though there are differences among people, all are to be loved and respected. Winthrop explains, “GOD ALMIGHTY in His most holy and wise providence, hath so disposed of the condition of mankind, as in all time some must be rich, some poor, some high and eminent in power and dignity; others mean and in submission” (1). Winthrop