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How Does John Locke Create A Supra-Authority

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Once we decide to create a supra-authority and live as a contractual society, we obtain a comparative advantage that individuals lacked in our State of Nature: laws, judges to adjudicate laws, and the executive power necessary to enforce these laws. Each man, therefore, gives over the power to gain protection and punish transgressors of the Law of Nature to the government that was created through the social agreement. I would like to cite John Locke: “for hereby he authorizes the society, or, which is all one, the legislative thereof, to make laws for him, as the public goods of the society shall require, to the execution whereof his own assistance (as to his own decrees) is due. And this puts men out of a state of nature into that of a commonwealth,

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