I argue that I support Locke because he supports life,liberty,and property were Hobbes THINKS people are naturally cruel,selfish, and greedy. Another one is that Locke believes in free social contract were Hobbes thinks people should not be free to have social contract.

State of Nature/Conflict

(Before societies developed)

In the state of nature men mostly kept their promises and honored their obligations, and, though insecure, it was mostly peaceful, good, and pleasant. Though some places and times are insecure, violent conflicts are often ended by the forcible imposition of a just peace on evil doers, and peace is normal.

Today most of mankind celebrates holidays together in peace. Even though we may have had wars we also had a lot of peace and we created many festivities in honor of us getting over what we did in the past and learning from our mistakes. When we didn't learn from our mistakes and history repeated itself we learned the second time. And after all of this we are in peace, we are not at war.

Locke believed that a government can only be valid if it has a social contract with it's people. An example is when the colonists revolted against Great Britain

Locke believed that people have natural rights. Life, liberty, and property. The U.S. used this in their Declaration of Independence. The U.S. is one of the most powerful countries on the world. People are encouraged to fight for their rights.

Human Nature

(Characteristics of all humans)

In a natural state all people were equal and independent, and everyone had a natural right to defend his "life, health, liberty, or possessions"

In the US today, all men and women who are part of the United States, are equal and independent in their own way. In the Declaration of Independence it says, ¨We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.¨

When people are born, they have a blank slate. They fill it in as they progress through life. Hobbes say that people are naturally selfish and greedy. That is only when people are raised like that. You can make someone not be greedy by teaching them kindness and sympathy

Locke wants people to be happy and cares for people's rights.

Role of the State (Government)

The only important role of the state is to ensure that justice is seen to be done. Since governments exist by the consent of the people in order to protect the rights of the people and promote the public good, governments that fail to do so can be resisted and replaced with new governments. Locke is thus also important for his defense of the right of revolution.

In the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Thomas Jefferson wrote, “The most sacred of the duties of government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.” This sacred duty to fulfill the promise of justice for all remains the guiding ideal for the men and women of the Department in carrying out their mission: “To enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.” This shows that John Locke influenced the US government in many ways.

John Locke's version of social contract theory is saying that the only right people give up in order to enter into civil society and its benefits is the right to punish other people for violating rights, but according to Hobbes, the lives of individuals in the state of nature were "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short", a state in which self-interest and the absence of rights and contracts prevented the "social contract", or society. John Locke is stating that some people give up some of their rights to either have more rights, to live under justice or to live civilly. Hobbes is stating that people are too "solitary, poor, nasty, and brutish", and people are too upset about the absence of rights, that the social contract was postponed.

John Locke believed that people are a social animal. This is proven by CNN. CNN posted an article about comedians finding new ways to connect with their audiences. this proves that people like to be social.

He published a book about peoples natural rights. His book was called "Two Treatises".

Locke believed that the government was created to protect our day to day rights.

Hobbes thought that without kings everything would become out of order because people in his perspective are greedy, cruel, and unwanted.

Locke was the inspiration for the life, liberty, and, the pursuit of happiness which is one of the lines everyone knows in the United States.

lock wanted free speech for everyone so people can have a say in what is going on in government and in their country

Locke ideas are in the constitution and without Locke's ideas there would be the impotent civil rights movement and all the other impotent protests in history.

and without Locke whites and black would be serrated and woman would have fewer rights if Locke didn't exist

He hated Kings while Thomas Hobbes does. This means that John locke was for america while Hobbes wasn't.

Rights

He argued that people have rights, such as the right to life, liberty, and property, that have a foundation independent of the laws of any particular society. Locke used the claim that men are naturally free and equal as part of the justification for understanding legitimate political government as the result of a social contract where people in the state of nature conditionally transfer some of their rights to the government in order to better ensure the stable, comfortable enjoyment of their lives, liberty, and property.

When Abraham Lincoln dedicated a national cemetery for the soldiers who had died at Gettysburg, four months after that central battle of the American Civil War, he was not the principal speaker. But no other speech that day has been remembered the way Lincoln’s words are. He spoke of the past, of the “proposition that all men are created equal” on which the Republic was founded; he spoke of the present, of the sacrifices ordinary men in blue had made to vindicate that proposition; and he spoke of a future in which living Americans must continue to dedicate themselves to the “great task” of preserving that ideal forever. Nothing else anchors the challenges of our present to the intentions of our past more clearly than the Gettysburg Address. This shows that Abraham Lincon knew that all men were created equal and no one should have more power over another.