Locke and the Legitimacy of the State: Right vs. Good

Rock and State Validity: Rights and Tenderness John Rock's concept of "justified state" has many controversies and arguments about whether he emphasizes the right to rights. In such a deep and interesting question, Lock's "Letter of Liberal" provides strong evidence that the right of "priority" to legitimate country rights is invalid. The view towards the political state before the lock began with his view that "people are" naturally "," completely free "and an equal state" (Christman 42).

While political authority is pre-existing in nature, legitimacy is a concept unique to the state of citizens. However, because the legality criteria proposed by Locke is historical, the legal authority is still related to the state of nature. Locke believes that the legitimacy of the political authority of a civil rights state depends on whether the transfer of power is done in the right way or not. Whether assignment is done in the right way or not depends on individual consent. Anyone who explicitly or implicitly agrees to social contracts must abide by state law (Locke 1980: 63). Locke understands that the consensus criterion applies only to institutionalization of the first political authority - Rawls (2007: 124) calls it "original consent."

John Locke interpreted this validity. The starting point of Locke is a natural state that anyone can act freely under the constraints of natural law, and it is not bound by the intention of others. As Rawls (2007: 129) states an understanding of the natural state of rock, it is "the state of equal rights, the kings of both." However, although natural law is clearly stated in the state of nature, it is not enough to govern the society concretely, it can not be executed in violation. The solution to this problem is to move the political power to a social contract of a citizen state that can realize and protect the natural law. According to Locke, contrary to his predecessor Thomas Hobbs, social contracts did not produce authority. Political authority is embodied in individuals and exists in the state of nature. Social contracts transfer the power they enjoy in their natural state to a specific political group