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......The self the social contract and John Locke: John Locke, author of Second Treatise of Government, places sovereignty into the hands of the populace. Locke claims that people are equal and have natural rights, born into a State of Nature, where they are free from outside rule. In this most natural and perfect state, society (the people) have the right to engender laws and protect themselves, or to judge and execute their rights by overthrowing a ruler or regime that is not compatible with their pursuit of actualization. The individual, the self, comes together, thus society, to organize the self and form a consensus, which must tend to the preservation of the life, the liberty, health, limb, or goods of all members of society (Locke, 2:6)
All individuals are equal in nature, have the same rights, and are individuals, but born politically active and positive: To understand political power we must consider that all men are in a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions. A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another (Locke, 2:4). Thus, for Locke, the key to the

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