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John Locke's Second Treatise On Civil Government

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In John Locke’s “Second Treatise on Civil Government,” Locke places the sovereign in complete control of the government. In sect. 149 he states, “..people devolve into hands of those that gave it.” His argument was that the government's sole purpose was to serve the people and that we can dissolve the government if it’s best interest was not for the people. In the state of nature, natural law governs behavior, and each person has license to execute that law against someone who wrongs them by infringing on their rights. Rousseau shared Locke’s view in the sovereign and added that the sovereign can not defer power. It expresses the general will, which will never align itself with another party except itself. Compared to Hobbes, who believed
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