John Locke Equality

John Locke is a political philosopher who is known as the Father of Enlightenment. Locke’s scholarly works of the eighteenth century still remains significantly influential in our society today. When Locke discusses the relationship between property and government in, The Two Treaties of Government, he defines property as the protection of people as well as their goods and individuals should have the right to own as much property as they desire. On the other hand, Government should have limited access to a person’s property and is only placed into society to keep the rebellious state of nature in order. Locke highlights a State of Equality where power and jurisdiction is reciprocal and everyone citizen within society has the same power and

The issue that was prevalent in Quebec involved freedom of religion, and highlighted the topic of equality. Locke is not focused on the government institution as a whole, but rather is focused on equality. The government is present in society to protect the citizens, and protect their property; to provide peace among humankind. In the second part of the The Two Treatise of Government, Locke argues that power should be used to positively affect the citizens of society, and the final result should be public good. The new course in Quebec that offers students a background of different cultures, and faith stimulated negative emotion from the parents who wanted their children removed from the course. The government has the power to set out this rule that the parents are not allowed to remove their child from the program, and did not use their authority in the perspective of helping society. Within the state of nature, Locke argues, each individual has the freedom to do as they please, and is living in equality with one another. In a Lockean perspective, citizens of Quebec have the right to not learn about what other religious practices exist, and are allowed to dismiss themselves from the course, Ethics and Religious Culture, if they desire to do

Moreover, includes the “right to not be compelled to act contrary to one’s belief without a legitimate justification”. Freedom of religion also displays the right to “equal treatment by the state of different belief systems”. The idea’s proposed by John Locke made it easy to write the letter to the editor because he strongly supported the issues of liberty and equality. The issue of the new course in Quebec was similar to the beliefs of John Locke that was evident in The Letter Concerning Toleration. Furthermore, this document argues that religion should be secular from the state. The Letter Concerning Toleration highlights complete respect and absolute liberty and all citizens possess the right of religious