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What is the purpose of government according to John Locke?
It is to protect and safeguard an individual's rights.to protect its citizens from each other and to provide for the common defense
What Enlightenment thinker argued that the purpose of government is to safeguard the natural rights of the people?
John Locke, an Enlightenment thinker, argued that the purpose of government is to protect the natural rights of life, liberty, and property of its citizens. Locke believed that people are born with these inherent rights, and that government exists to preserve and protect them.
A government creates an army Which purpose of government is it fulfilling?
Protection is the purpose of government served by military forces.
Why does the government pass laws?
to protect the people's natural rights.
How might the contract theory serve to protect the rights of the people?
Because it states that the purpose of government is to protect the rights of people & if the government cannot/will not do so, then the people should rebel.
What is the purpose for putting limits on government power?
Protect against government cruelty that limits the right of the people
what did the founders believe was an important purpose of government?
Natural rights, sometimes called unalienable rights, are rights the Framers believed all people are born with and can never give up. The Founders argued that the government's central purpose should be to protect and uphold these rights.
Who said people have natural rights that government should protect?
john Locke
WHO SAID PEOPLE HAVE NATURAL RIGHTS THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD PROTECT?
john Locke
People have natural rights that the government should protect?
The Declaration of Independence and the constitution.
What did jefferson think should happen to a government that does not protect people's rights?
Locke felt that if a government does not protect the people's rights, the people have the right to dissolve that government. This sentiment affected the writing of the Declaration of Independence.John Locke, a philosopher in 1689, put forth the argument that governments that failed to protect the natural rights of its citizens were subject to change by a revolution if necessary.
What philosopher argued that the purpose of the government was to protect the natural rights of people?
Plato; in The Republic (as the voice of Socrates) - Aristotle (Plato's student) in [treatise on] Politics - almost all other works stem from these.
