id, "To prevent the weaker members of the community from being preyed upon by innumerable vultures, it was needful that there should be an animal of prey stronger than the rest, commissioned to keep them down." The idea of Liberty from government was to set limits to it's power. The two ways this was obtained was by making political liberties or rights, and also to establish checks for the government. It was only in latter forms of government that the second idea was accepted.
A time soon came that people wanted their government to have elected officials placed into the government that would speak for them and
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