privileges, establishes the foundation of his idealized civil society. The resulting society must therefore have a lawmaking body which creates positive or proactive laws and creates institutions that are capable of enforcing these laws. Further, Locke (247) saw men in society as giving tacit consent to being governed by society or experiencing a positive engagement within a political union. It was Locke's (248) view that the primary motivation for entering into political society and creating a government was the preservation of their property. Thus, society existed not only to support man's selfish ends, but to protect selfish men from other selfish men.
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