DVM2350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: One True Church, General Revelation, A Letter Concerning Toleration
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Those who are united into one body with a common established law and judiciary to appeal to, with authority to decide controversies and punish offenders are in: * difference between hobbes definition of the state and locke"s. Hobbes believes that people enter into the social contract based on their own will, and those same people summon their will to the sovereign. Locke states that the government must be grounded based on individual belief and the will of the people. Locke suggests that people must enjoy their own independence, in the state of nature all people are individuals and act in pursuit of themselves. Mixture of legislative power and executive power. As opposed to the tyrannical state, the liberal sate gives the citizen: The liberal state is different from tyrannical and paterfamilias: Chapter 8&9: the beginning and end of political societies. Political societies cannot exist without the consent of the governed political liberalism. To have a solid and established law.