ARCHIVE - "Liberty and Justice for All" - First Essay http://www2.evergreen.edu/libertyandjustice/taxonomy/term/7/0 Post your first paper here. Also, respond to your colleagues' papers here. en ARCHIVE - Ian Clement http://www2.evergreen.edu/libertyandjustice/ian-clement-0 <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>                                                                                                                        Ian Clement </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>During the past few weeks I have been reading and discussing the political philosophies of Robert Locke. After reading his <em>Second treatise on government </em>, followed by the Gordon S Wood book; the radicalism of the American Revolution,  It is clear to me how many of the ideas that Locke lays down were either a product of the European Aristocracies, thought pattern or the result of the proliferation of the Locke type or   capitalist form of government.</p><p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/libertyandjustice/ian-clement-0">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/libertyandjustice/ian-clement-0#comment First Essay Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:30:27 -0700 cleian06 78 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/libertyandjustice ARCHIVE - Tracey Christianson http://www2.evergreen.edu/libertyandjustice/tracey-christianson-0 <font face="georgia,palatino" size="3">  </font><p align="center"><strong><font face="georgia,palatino" size="3">Republican Political Theories</font></strong></p><p align="center"><strong><font face="georgia,palatino" size="3">Found in the</font></strong></p><p align="center"><strong><font face="georgia,palatino" size="3">Declaration of Independence</font></strong></p><p align="center">&#160;</p><p><font face="georgia,palatino" size="3">One of the first examples that the overall political philosophy of author/philosopher John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau manifested itself in the founding era of the United States is found in the Declaration of Independence (adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776).  To present this argument, I will identify political theories within the Declaration and provide evidence to support their origins to either, or to both, Locke and Rousseau.</font></p><p><a href="http://www2.evergreen.edu/libertyandjustice/tracey-christianson-0">read more</a></p> http://www2.evergreen.edu/libertyandjustice/tracey-christianson-0#comment First Essay Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:23:09 -0700 chrtra11 53 at http://www2.evergreen.edu/libertyandjustice