d then a new government must be formed. This idea comes almost directly from Locke’s ideas that the state exists to preserve the rights of it’s citizens and that the citizen’s have the right to break up the government if it is not doing so. This argument is in shown chapter thirteen, section 149, of The Second Treatise of Government where Locke says that even after forming a government, “there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them…and thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody,…[who would] carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.” Locke also acknowledges that the executive branch which enforces the laws and therefore includes the police and military could turn that force against the people and their elected representatives, the legislature. Locke says that would constitute a state of war with the people who have a right to reinstate their legislature. Jefferson used this idea in particular to defend his move to dissolve ties with Britain saying that Britain had used it’s military powers against the people of the Colonies and therefore a state of war with them had resulted.In The Second Treatise of Government, Locke also discusses the ends of political society and government in chapter nine, sections 123 through 126. Locke reiterates that men give up their natural state of total freedom because in doing so provides greater security and safety for their lives and property. Locke describes that there are other benefits as well; the opportunity to establish laws that apply to same to all, designated impartial judges to apply the law, and an executive authority to follow through on carrying out or enforcing laws and punishing or sanctioning those who break the laws. Locke is sayin...
