GMU State of Nature Inspiration for American Founders Locke & Mill Essay

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Write a 4-6 paragraph essay (900-1200 words) in which you articulate and defend a thesis on some combination of the following topics: i. the social contract, ii. property, iii. the state of nature.

You may write about just one (e.g. property) of these topics, or select two (e.g. property and the state of nature), or tackle all three.

Your introduction and conclusion must engage one of the three texts (Marshall, Cronon, or Malick) assigned as an independent study over fall break. I.e. you should use one of these texts to frame your argument.

The body of your paper must engage one author from each of the following two groups:

A. Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau

B. Mills, Morgan.

Each engagement should include at least one quotation.

So, for example, you might write a paper about property, using Cronon's Changes in the Land to set up your argument, and making an original argument that engages and uses evidence from Locke and Mills in the body of your paper, and uses at least one quotation from Locke, and one quotation from Mills.

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Running Head: THE STATE OF NATURE

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State of nature
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THE STATE OF NATURE
Introduction
The state of nature is a topic in the curriculum that discusses different ideas that inspired
America's founders. It simply means the original type of human beings before the political
association are created. Theorists visions and ideas on the state of nature show great differences
though they are all associated with absence of control and authority in the state. The European
and western governmental system was greatly influenced by Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau's
ideologies and political ideas (Duarte, 2018). All of them lived in different parts of the country
that had other circumstances, though they contributed to the base of nature, towards government
and state-formation. Thomas Hobbes represented the absolute authoritarian monarch; he said

that, emulating state of nature simply means short, brutish, nasty and poor life. He says that some
people might take advantage of the war, if they don`t want to live in peace with others, hence
lack of an authority to control these and listen to disputes, individuals will live in mistrust and
fear of one another.
Locke uses the public trainees in his liberal theories of the constitutional monarch and
governmental democracy. Unlike Hobbes, he believes tha...


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