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foundation of the new American government. Successfully, the five writers developed important reference documents that Americans still use today for freedoms and rights. In document one, John Locke, an enlightenment thinker, writes in his “Second Treatise on Government” that a man will allow himself give up his rights and subject himself to the dominion and control of an other power of government. This statement implies that man is only interested in his own self, his own liberty, and his…

believed that, by nature, all men were created to be free and equal. His idea went on to be written in the Declaration of Independence (written as “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness”) when America became its own land. Locke also wrote Two Treatises of Government in 1689. This composition describes the purpose and power of the government and how the government should serve its people. It also describes the purpose of the people and their duties and rights as servants of God. Locke was a…

“I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege,” Peggy McIntosh, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack. Ms. McIntosh has written a treatise on white privilege, beginning with a reference to materials she has used in Women’s Studies on male privilege. She sees a correlation between male privilege and white privilege, that being in a group of individuals (men) who are not willing to see themselves as privileged…

One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, Alexander Hamilton is best known as the principal author of the classic work on constitutional government. However, his enduring influence on American matters of state lies equally with his reports to Congress on the financial affairs of the Federal government. Hamilton is chiefly responsible for the design and establishment of Federal institutions, and above all for the financial system which helped consolidate the states into a…

The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli, is a political treatise/non-fiction book written as a guide for how to be an effective ruler. Machiavelli intends to guide rulers on how to seize a country and how to destroy an enemy. He writes about rulers of his time and the things they did well and did not do so well. His purpose was to right a book to advise the aristocracy in what they should do to rule effectively so government would be run in the way his mind pictured it. He told the world the truth…

His work Two Treatises on Government included the politics of the Enlightenment as well as his own thoughts on the government's role in society. Rather than the belief in the absolute monarch, instead John Locke believed the subjects had the right to form new governments…

My final, major point why the strengths outweigh the weaknesses is the lack of education. According to Doc C., the Spartans learned to read and write for practical reasons, but all other forms of education they banned from the country, books and treatises being included in this as much as foreign languages.In Doc. E, it explains that there was lack of academic intelligence and mostly there was only physical education. Women were needed to do physical education when they were pregnant to produce…

‘The Witches Hammer’, also called Malleus Maleficarum, is a treatise written for the prosecution of witches.The disquisition was written by a German Catholic clergyman by the name of Heinrich Kramer in 1486 and published in 1487. The purpose of the book was to prove, to those with skepticism, that witchcraft did, in fact, exist, imply that women were involved in witchcraft more often than men because of the emotional weakness of the female gender, and persuade officials to use Kramer’s system of…

Unity and equality go hand in hand. In order to have equality there must be unity. In John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government, he makes the claim that all men are born free and equal based on the concept of natural law. His theory was the basis for the Declaration of Independence. However, his idea of equality seemed to only include white men who owned land. Likewise, in Woolson’s Rodman the Keeper, Rodman’s idea of equality, which is based on his own views and values, does not include…

where official institutions and society interact through the use of power. America currently use Weber’s philosophy on how we view politics and the state. John Locke also plays a key role in the way we analyze the political system. Locke wrote Second Treatise on Government which states the government should be limited and they cannot take away an individual’s fundamental rights. Locke explains individuals have God given rights that are natural and unalienable. Locke also came up with the…