POLSCI 2O06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Civil Society, W. M. Keck Observatory
24 Sep 2018
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Natural right to property: you have natural rights, not because of legislative, but because god and reason gave them to you. Any power that a father/mother over son, is not necessarily unified: the argument for the authority for parents over children does not equate to one ruler and the distribution of authority, ii. For hobbes, any law infringes your freedom, make you less free: therefore to locke, all governments are not equal, law can make you free if it is properly designed. It is just a powerful agent that has declared war. We do not hand our rights over to one power, but to a community > who then hires someone. If we all decide things democratically, we might not get to the result of protecting property. Another problem he encounters is that he insists: we can only be bound to authority we have created with our own consent, ii.
