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Government's job is to protect and serve its people with liberty.
Thomas Jefferson believed in state rights. he thought that a large federal government threatened liberty and that vigilant states could best protect freedom.
Locke believed that governments were formed to protect the rights of people. As such, he believed strongly in the concept of government only by the consent of the governed; the social contract; human rights to life, liberty, and property; and other political theories that were designed to protect the rights of every person.
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.
The English philosopher john Locke (1632-1704) believed that all people had rights that no government could take away. He expressed three of them as "life, liberty, and property." He believed that government should be run by the governed for their benefit.
John Locke believed that people should set up a new government when the existing government fails to protect their natural rights, namely life, liberty, and property. He argued that when a government violates these rights, people have the right to rebel and form a new government that will secure and protect their rights.
The framers of the U.S. Constitution advocated that the power of government would be limited. They ensured this by providing:
The framers were considered "the best people" in the country they wrote the Constitution and made sure Liberty was kept by keeping the country together and making it fair for every free man We hol these truths to be self evident that all men were created equal...