“Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains. This man believes that he is the master of others, and still he is more of a slave than they are. -Rousseau, man is made a slave by the confinement of an un democratic government and unequal social classes, To understand political power aright, and derive it from its original, we must consider what estate all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of Nature-Locke, man should always be free, A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another, there being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species and rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of Nature, and the use of the same faculties, should also be equal one amongst another. . .-Locke, man should be equal with each other and free, “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.--Tha, Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”, Men are born free and with rights such as life and free choices. If governments do not protect those rights, the people should get rid of those governments as their duty., “The representatives of the French people…believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of, The French people believe their monarchs are refusing to care for them

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