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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">During the enlightenment a time in which people were trying to figure out how they relate to each other and the world around them came the question of what should be the role of the government and who is the ultimate authority. Although not the first to write a thesis on how the government relates to the governed John Locke became popular for his views of popular sovereignty that is that the power ultimately rests with the people which therefore means government can only be formed by the consent of the community and that if that government ultimately becomes corrupt then the people have the right to abolish it. Not only was this idea popular in its time by helping to justify glorious revolution but Locke's two treaties on civil government which was written around the time of the glorious revolution (1690) also helped shape the declaration of independence “governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it,” I believe that this document is important enough to keep because it has shaped our lives so much by the way in which government is , that it should be kept for future generation so that they have a basis for future space communities .</span></span>

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><!--more-->Written during a time of change in England which included but not limed to the glorious revolution and the beheading of </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">King Charles I,</span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> John Locke went to set out why we needed government. Although their were other documents that either attacked or praised the kings position John Locke mainly compared his view to that of Thomas Hobbes essay </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Leviathan</span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">. It was similar to Thomas Hobbes </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Leviathan</span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> in that they both believed that government is necessary to protect the people and once the government is created, rights of the people have to be given up ,how it differed from </span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Leviathan</span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> was in how he viewed the rights of the ruled. Thomas Hobbes believed once the people consented to a formed government they gave up all rights and all power laid with the ruler or king and that the governed must be passive servants which must be ruled through fear but in john Locke's second treatise he disputes those claims by saying the people can form governments out of reason and once created, be constantly critiqued and through their critique eventually if may eventually find that their government has become corrupt have the right to overthrow it and create a new one.</span></span>

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">At first John Locke's two treatises were not given a lot of attention Martynp Thompson in his article about the reception of the the 2 treatises at the time of their publication puts it as “Treatises occasioned no great immediate response” but “was thus certainly growing”. This lack of response was because of some of Locke's ideas were already popular among the Whigs and already stated in other published articles written by other more popular people of the day,so Locke's articles gained little attention when they were first released. Though his main reason for writing it was for justifying the glorious revolution it did not satisfy others, as it was too much of philosophical reasoning that did not include much of the context of the situation of the actual revolution that they felt was necessary in the argument. Not only was it not seen fit to justify the revolution it was also frowned upon because it also justified a whole new constitution if the people see fit, which the parliament did not like since they wanted to revive the ancient constitution.</span></span>

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Though not having as a dramatic effect when it was first released it eventually became the main point for the Whigs and eventually affected Thomas Jefferson in his writing of the deceleration of independence which has effected how a lot of countries base their government and in turn affects the way we live life today. I believe John Locke’s work has become more relevant today because unlike other articles that were popular right after the revolution broke because they referred and gave direct evidence for what was happening during the time, Locke gave a broader scope of how governments should be run and this broader scope can be more easily applied in today’s times.</span></span>

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I hope in the future they will realize the main important idea of this document that I believe to be that government should be created for the people and run by the people and protect the people.</span></span>

Citation Page

<span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Waldman, Theodore. "Of Civil Government." </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">World Philosophers &amp; Their Works</span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> (2000): 1-5. </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">MagillOnLiterature Plus</span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">. EBSCO. Web. 10 Oct. 2011.</span></span></span>

<span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Swygart, Glenn L. "Two Treatises of Government." </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Masterplots, Fourth Edition</span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> (2010): 1-3. </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">MagillOnLiterature Plus</span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">. EBSCO. Web. 10 Oct. 2011.</span></span></span>

<span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Two Treatises of Government." </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ethics (Ready Reference series)</span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> (1994): 1. </span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">MagillOnLiterature Plus</span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">. EBSCO. Web. 10 Oct. 2011.</span></span></span>

<span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thompson, Martyn P. "THE RECEPTION OF LOCKE'S TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT 1690-1705."Political Studies 24.2 (1976): 184-191. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 10 Oct. 2011. </span></span></span>

<span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fiero, Gloria K. The Humanistic Tradition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002. Print. </span></span></span>

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