Read the following excerpt by John Locke. Then, answer this question:
What does Locke say about the relationship between a government and its people? Write a paragraph using evidence from the passage to support your answer.
From Two Treatises of Government (1689)
“The great end of men's entering into society [is] the enjoyment of their properties in peace and safety…[The] great instrument and means of [creating a government is] the laws established in that society. [The] first and fundamental positive law of all [governments] is the establishing of the legislative power... This legislative [power] is not only the supreme power of the [government], but [it is also] sacred and unalterable in the hands where the community have once placed it…[The] consent of the society, over whom no body can have a power to make laws, but by their own consent, and by authority received.
