John LockeWith John Locke we begin to see the idea that man's rights are unlimited unless freely given up. Locke states: “Man is born, as has been demonstrated, with a title of perfect liberty, and an uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature…” (Locke – Second Treatises of Government – ​​46). According to Locke, human rights are limited only by the laws of nature. This statement leads us to understand that, according to Locke's beliefs, man has the ability to do anything. We see that Locke believes that personal protection is also a right when he states: “…he has by nature the power, not only to preserve his property, that is, his life, liberty, and property, against the injuries and attempts of other men …” (Locke – 46). With this understanding a person has unlimited rights, even regarding the preservation of himself or his family. This raises a question; How can a law be enacted if it goes against the natural rights of man? Locke's answer can be found when he states: But as no political society can exist, nor subsist, without having in itself the power of preserving property, and, for that purpose, punishing the offenses of all those of that society; there, and only there is political society, where each of its members has abandoned this natural power, has handed it over to the hands of the community in all cases which exclude him from having recourse for protection to the law established by it. (Locke - 46)If a population is to exist then all those who participate in the functioning of society must be willing to give up some of their natural rights to follow laws created to enable society as a whole to better protect people and property ... in the center of the card......Trans. Joe Sachs. Newbury, MA: Focus Pub./R. Pullins, 2002. Print.Aristotle. Politics. Trans. Benjamin Jowett. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2000. Print.Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. "Part Three: Ethical Life III. The State". Hegel's philosophy of law: the state. Hegel-by-HyperText Home Page @ Marxists.org, nd Web. March 31, 2014. .Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Trans. C.B. Macpherson. Harmondsworth, English: Penguin, 1986. Print.Locke, John. Second Government Treaty. Ed. CB Macpherson. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Pub., 1980. Print.Riley, Jim L., PhD. "The death penalty is justified." The death penalty justified. Regis University, 2001. Web. 15 March 2014. Weber, Max. Economy and Society. Berkeley: Univ. of California Pr., 1978. Print.