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Monster Essays - Differences and Similarities of Liberalism
Differences and Similarities of Liberalism
The purpose of this paper is to treat the similarly and differences of
liberalism. I will use John Locke and Adam Smith to represent classical
liberals. John Stuart Mill and John Maynard Keynes will be used to show
contemporary liberals.
John Locke
In John Locke's Second Treatise of Government he develops a theory of
government as a product of a social contract, which when broken justifies the
creation of a new government for the protection of life, liberty and property.
He begins his argument by developing a theory of the state of nature which is
...what state all men are naturally in,....
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