come into Civil Society. By lending out our SN we come together to protect it. We are
given back our SN after it has been restored. We are no longer threatened by someone taking it
away. The problem that arises is the fact that this is not a very solid solution. This leads to the
Political Society. People agree to get together and establish a PC (AKA "government") The PC
is responsible for protecting others. We are still in our State of Nature as we have lended it out,
received it back and come to terms with others in arranging a Political Society. Locke is
attempting to understand the proper relationship between a people and a government.
Jefferson's ideas are very close to those of Lockes. Which proves Locke's work had an
impact on him. The first major relationship between Jeffers
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