Analysis Of The Declaration Of Secession From Mississippi

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Locke would stand with the state of Mississippi. He would want them to rebel against the government because the government is using their force unlawfully. The people of Mississippi felt that the government was being aggressive and taking away their property. Locke expressed that people join and follow a government for a reason, and if the people believe that the government is using force without authority, they have a right to rebel. The Declaration of Secession from Mississippi often talked about property, and the loss of it. It is talked about how land is deprived from the South, and Texas, and continued to grow with the loss of more property, land and slaves (Mississippi). Locke was strongly against slavery (Locke, Sec 24). However, Locke said that if someone put labor into the land, they owned that land (Locke, Sec 45). Locke …show more content…

The first being that Locke would never allow slaves. Locke says in section 23 that no one can fully be enslaved to another person, whether forcefully or willfully.
This passage that is used against slavery is also the passage that can refute this argument. It says that the slave still has control over his life, for he cannot give it to another person. However, at the end of this section, it says that by resisting the will of his master, the slave “draw[s] on himself the death he desires” (Locke, sec 23). The slave can chose life or death at any time, and when he goes against his master, he asks for death.
The second argument against the supporting of Mississippi is the people’s right to rebel. Locke would not want a revolution for “every little mismanagement in public affairs” (Locke, Sec 225). It would need to be a continuing offence, if the government does not do what the people want, time and time again. Locke also wants there to always be a government, or else there would be chaos. And if a society is gone, then a government cannot remain (Locke, Sec

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