The drawbacks of Locke’s state of nature are nothing but certain ‘inconveniences’. As for Locke, property is the central theme; he says that inevitably disputes would arise, particularly with the growth of inequalities in the property distribution.

The American people have a contract with their government–the Constitution of the United States of America. Written in 1787 and amended twenty-seven times, this document is the basis for U.S. government.

Locke holds that in the state of nature there is a “law of nature” which is plain to everyone who will use his reason: “don’t harm another in his life, liberty, health, or possessions.” (P. 6) Natural law forbids us to violate others’ natural rights.

Government is made necessary by three deficiencies of the “state of nature”: the lack of a known and settled law, the lack of a known and impartial judge to settle disputes, and the lack of a power to back and support the decisions of law.

that civil government is the proper remedy for the inconveniences of the state of nature (II. 13) ; and it is, after all, in the early Chapter III that Locke says that the desire to avoid the state of war is ” one great reason of men’s putting themselves into society and quitting the state of nature ” (III. 21).

Locke views the state of nature more positively and presupposes it to be governed by natural law. Hobbes emphasises the free and equal condition of man in the state of nature, as he states that ‘nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of mind and body…the difference between man and man is not so considerable.