Personal Liberty within Government

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This essay examines three different authors and addresses their thoughts on the essentials of liberty of an individual within a government and their outlooks on the different aspects of personal freedom, which all favor government in varying degrees. This essay also discusses the finer points of these ideals and any similarities in the opinions of the authors.

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"Rousseau perhaps favors government more than the other two authors considered. In his opinion, an individual gives up natural liberty for that of a societal freedom. He sees a person who joins a society, and lives under its rule as gaining much more than he has sacrificed. Under the rules and laws of a society, an individual works for the good of the community, or group, each member of which, through vote, takes part in making up the rules the community lives under. The rules, in pertaining equally to each member of the community, are fairly equal to each: "Since no man has a natural authority over his fellow, and force creates no right, we must conclude that conventions form the basis of all legitimate authority among men". (Rousseau PG)."

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