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    Government is the establishment of society upon certain l... — Carmelics
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    Supports→No government allows absolute liberty.

    Government is the establishment of society upon certain laws requiring conformity.

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    Absolute liberty is allowing anyone to do as they please.No government allows absolute liberty.The ideas of conformity to law and doing as one pleases cannot logically agree.

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    This might seem to be a tall order when considering the controversy generated by beliefs about moral rules, yet Locke clearly believes that moral rules can, with the right mental effort, yield indisputable universal laws. Locke offers an example of how this might work, by analyzing the moral proposition Where there is no property, there is no injustice. In order to see the demonstrable certainty of this claim, we have to examine the composite ideas and how those agree or disagree with one anothe

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