Legislative Power In Shakespeare's Merchant Of Venice

government the majority chooses, its first act is to set up a legislative government in power which is supreme and it can’t be changed unless the whole government is dissolved. The legislative power while supreme within the common wealth cannot be arbitrary, it cannot deprive someone of life, liberty, or a state. If the legislative power did deprive people of life, liberty, or the state no individual would have voluntarily left the natural condition.
What has been given to government is the law to enforce nature, so that is what we give up to government when we create a government from within political society. We give it the right to enforce the law of nature. In Locke’s view the law of nature dictates two things, self-preservation, and preservation of all others as long as those goals don’t conflict. That is the most we can give to government when we create on out of political society. Since that is all the possible power people can give to the government the legislative powers necessarily limited to preserving the political society which set it up.
That general limitation breaks down into four specifications which explains why people can’t remain in the state of nature. The four specifications of legislative power that explain why people would want to create a government and not remain forever in the state of …show more content…
Locke derives his thinking from that of the Enlightment, rationalism and the world. Shakespeare on the other hand derives his works from the earlier Christian ways of thinking which human are limited. These ways of thinking are very different from each other and is easily seen as the writings begin to take place. In Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice property such as money isn’t valued as much as property or in the same sense as Locke describes property in his Second