Laws of Nature When I think about laws in place in contemporary times, in other countries and in my own, or the meaning of human rights, the definition I would give can only be that of the regurgitated connections and learnings I have made while interacting in society and the information others have passed along to me or I have searched out for myself; however, for my purposes throughout this analysis, it should be explicitly known that I intend to keep myself separated emotionally and restrict the use of any seemingly bias responses, the goal of which is to allow more clear connections between famous pieces of texts written in the past with the understood definitions of that time to definitions and common understandings in the 21st century.
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The ideas and thoughts that were compiled in the Declaration of Independence were not simply written down in haste but with years and years of experience, thought, and time was spent. While it was signed by John Hancock, the contents were inspired by many. Even a piece written in 1690 by John Locke towards the public in France, has strong ties to the Declaration of Independence. These two texts were written decades apart from each other yet many of Locke’s ideas are present. For example, in Chapter VII 87 of Of Political or Civil Society Locke describes man being born with “…rights and privileges of the law of Nature…” in order to “…preserve his property- that is, his life, liberty, and estate…” and in the Declaration of Independence, the “unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America”, it is written “…that all men are created equal…” and have “…certain unalienable Rights, that amoung these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”. The ideas and even some of the diction is the …show more content…
Now this is not to saw that these pieces of text were perfect or had all the greatest ideas because even I had personal bias. For example, I thought Locke’s idea of always going back to the first convention, which I also felt off put that included ‘Grotius’, he states “The law of majority voting is itself something established by convention, and presupposes unanimity, on one occasion at least.” It also can get difficult to understand Locke because he likes to talk about a lot of philosophical concepts but there is no doubt he was inspirational. Just like I had a personal bias and shared it, others wanted to speak up
The ideas and thoughts that were compiled in the Declaration of Independence were not simply written down in haste but with years and years of experience, thought, and time was spent. While it was signed by John Hancock, the contents were inspired by many. Even a piece written in 1690 by John Locke towards the public in France, has strong ties to the Declaration of Independence. These two texts were written decades apart from each other yet many of Locke’s ideas are present. For example, in Chapter VII 87 of Of Political or Civil Society Locke describes man being born with “…rights and privileges of the law of Nature…” in order to “…preserve his property- that is, his life, liberty, and estate…” and in the Declaration of Independence, the “unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America”, it is written “…that all men are created equal…” and have “…certain unalienable Rights, that amoung these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”. The ideas and even some of the diction is the …show more content…
Now this is not to saw that these pieces of text were perfect or had all the greatest ideas because even I had personal bias. For example, I thought Locke’s idea of always going back to the first convention, which I also felt off put that included ‘Grotius’, he states “The law of majority voting is itself something established by convention, and presupposes unanimity, on one occasion at least.” It also can get difficult to understand Locke because he likes to talk about a lot of philosophical concepts but there is no doubt he was inspirational. Just like I had a personal bias and shared it, others wanted to speak up