The Protest Of The United States

The word Social Contract theory was first used by Thomas Hobbes to define royal authority. However John Locke who wrote the two treaties on government” in the 1680’s reinforce the meaning of a new social contract theory. In his version of social contract, he stated “men surrendered a part of their right to govern them selves in order to enjoy the benefits of the rule of law”(Foner, 149). In his argument, natural right such as life, liberty and proper play a huge role. According to Locke, Government or political system is form by equal individuals (mainly men of a household). Although men surrendered part of their right to govern to enjoy the benefits of the rule of law, they do retain the natural right of protecting of liberty, life and property against any local or foreign enemies. According to Locke and the

In his Second Treatise on Government Locke focus’ on liberalism & capitalism, defending the claim that men are by nature free and equal against the idea that God had made all people subject to a king. He argued that people have ‘natural rights’, such as the right to life, liberty, and property, that hold the foundation for the major laws of a society. He says, “…we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit.” (2nd Treatise, Chapter 2, sec 4). John Locke used this claim, that all men were naturally free and equal, for understanding the idea of a government as a result of a social contract. This is where people in the state of nature transfer some of their rights to the government in order to better guarantee the steady and comfortable enjoyment of their lives, liberty, and property.

John Locke had many accomplishments. John Locke has public may significance writing; Essay Concerning Human Understanding in 1689, Two Treaties of Government in 1690, and Letters Concerning Toleration in 1689-1692. John Locke’s “Essay Concerning Human Understanding” defined the theory of human knowledge, identity and selfhood. In his “Two Treatises of Government” believing that the legitimacy of government relies on consent from its citizens which is given on the basis of equality. A government has the duty to protect the natural rights of its people, if they fail to protect these rights, the citizen have the right to overthrow the government. This writing shows John Locke beliefs in “life, liberty, and property.” In his “Letters Concerning Toleration,”

A few examples of the similarities of the Declaration and Locke’s Second Treatise of Government will suffice,

Many of John Locke’s ideas were input into the Declaration of Independence, as his primary words “life, liberty” and instead of property, the pursuit of happiness, are the basis of the American Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Locke’s arguments concerning liberty influenced the works of James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, as his Second Treatise is imitated in the Declaration of Independence. When the founding fathers adopted the resolution for the nation’s

Locke’s writing helped inspired many, but impacted mostly the western philosophy (“John Locke: Biography.”) In Locke’s milestone, Two Treatises of Government claimed his revolutionary viewpoint, the natural rights of man and the social contract (“James Harrington Encyclopedia.”) Both impression not only overwrought in England, but also encounter the cognoscenti that formed the later American French Revolution. At the time of England’s downfall, Locke became involved in creating a clear objective for the government. Locke believed the government should be limited and should protect the life, property, and liberty of citizens. Locke wanted a government that met the needs of the people, which is what the makers of the constitution took into account when they set up the legislative branch. The legislative branch is made up of the Senate and House of Representatives. Locke was a long time influence of America, especially when he said “being all equal

These events of the election lead me to ask Alejandra and Fernando about the anti-protest that have been bursting out all over the country. I asked Alejandra and Fernando how they feel about them and if they had participated in an any of the protest. (Fernando) – “Well right after they announced the winner a lot of people at UCLA were not happy so they started a protest against Donald Trump. It was around 11:50 pm when the protest happened. I would have joined but I had a long day from work and school and I had to wake up early the next day. Is not that I didn 't care and I didn 't want my voice to be heard I was just not emotionally ready I literally started crying. Although I wasn 't there physically I was there in spirit because it was great to have a community back you up. I could hear the chants of "f*** Donald Trump," "We want equality, not supremacy," and "we hate Trump" then after that they quickly faded away. I heard from friends that the protest was around 600 students and it ended up really late like around 3 in the morning. Although I was not present my protest is getting my education and to achieve my goals. As well as to empower others and to show them that anyone can achieve anything if you believe in yourself. As well as to show my community and people of color that they belong at UCLA”.

A government can be created for many reasons that has to do with the people it is catering for. The government can be used in many ways, like protecting the people, watching over the people, or going into the peoples’ personal lives if needed or wanted. Two men create documents based on what their opinions of what the government is made for. Those two men are John Locke and Thomas Jefferson, they have similarities and differences in what their ideas are for creating a new government. Both allow the citizens to establish a new government. However, Locke’s reason to why men create a government is different from Jefferson’s reason. One can see the similarities and differences between Locke and Jefferson. It also can be seen that Jefferson’s idea is the more specific idea to creating a government because his thoughts are more about human’s rights.

Protests riots in the United States has proven to an issue for both the country’s financial strength and the unity of the nation. With the presence of social injustices, combined with the increased impact of social media propaganda, protests riots are beginning to reach an all time high. Protest riots destroy individual communities and businesses, jeopardizes the safety of others and taints the protest’s cause by resorting to civil disobedience. Action must be done in order to prevent these random acts of violence from continuing after every social hot topic. The goal is not to prevent citizens from protesting; in fact, this should be encouraged. The goal is to change the way the protests are handled from both the citizens and authority perspectives, in order to prevent these protests from escalating into something dangerous.

Locke believed that people are willing to unite under a form of government to preserve their lives, liberty, and estate. Since natural law is already good, government not only preserves natural law, but also works to enhance it.

The threat presented by extra-parliamentary protest in the years 1815-20 was plagued by weak and divided leadership which limited it from driving results that met its full potential. However, there were also other factors that served to undermine progress such as the actions of the government in repressing dissenters and the low level of available logistical resources .

Locke’s main discussions of freedom took place in his work entitled Two Treatises on Government. These views were built upon the view of a natural state in which every individual maintained a state of natural freedom. In this natural state, each individual was free to make decisions and choose actions without any constraints. Locke felt that under this view every individual should maintain equal and independent and refrain from harming one another. However, the main problem in this concept of freedom is that fact that an individual’s free will can be constrained by the actions of another.

If we look at both sides of the story, some criminals just want to test how tyrannical the government has became from what the founding fathers has intended to wanting the control of government to become. When it comes to peaceful protesting, we already have created a certain way but not the right idea to how we should make it become to influence the society of today to keep on doing and completely reduce the power of a government to the amount of power they had since the begging of their creation during the same era of the founding fathers. If only there was a person willing to peacefully protest in a free society it will bring positive influence to the current society and will definitely bring history books and historians down to their knees for being able to create a perfect society of influential action and greatly change the current society to make it possible for it to never come back to the history books ever again or speaking of never having to repeat the same horrible history in the modern age era to the future era of the great free

Martin Luther King JR stated in Why We Can’t Wait that “A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.” The thought behind this quote is that in order for a social movement to officially be a social movement or a social revolution, it has to change the people involved, and also the institution. Martin Luther King JR was infamous for his legacy left on the black civil rights movement, a mastermind behind bringing the country together to start a movement for equal rights of blacks and whites.

Seems like everywhere you look nowadays there is a different protest going on somewhere. They range from anywhere to gay rights and #BlackLivesMatter to this small protest about new born puppies I heard on the news the other day. They all seem to have that one common interest in mind, change. How some protest groups “protest” is a different story though. Many protest groups today choose violent protest over peaceful protest. In today’s world, it may seem like violent protest is more attentive and a quicker way for change, but the truth is that they set a poor example for everyone, creates a lust for power, and causes unnecessary tax money spending, so the violence causes more bad then good.