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John Locke

An open letter to the New Orleans Government, from the New Orleans Civil Society:

It has come to your attention that we, the citizenry of New Orleans, have taken action today to begin refusing to pay our taxes, specifically our property taxes, which we know are valuable sources of your finances. It is in understanding that the government's funds are to be allocated for the provision of social services and other measures that require the preservation of peace, order, and functionality among New Orleans citizens. However, present events showed that despite the willingness of the citizens to be subjected to this kind of tax, there has been no corresponding action or trade-off that the government offered to the citizenry, actions that explicitly shows that the people's money are being spent on important and urgent concerns of the state.

Yes, what we are doing is a revolt against you, the government. We are revolting not because we want to oust every official or politician in the government; we are revolting because we want to remind you that you have just breached the social contract the government and the civil society has entered into. In this social contract, we allowed you to take a certain level of control of our civil liberties, such as paying for real property taxes, since we know that this contract and the payment of the taxes would benefit the civil society in its attempt to become highly-developed and progressive. In this letter, we will be referring to the works of John Locke, whom we believe echoes our sentiments as members of the civil society at the moment. The words of Locke will remind you of your duties as the chosen representati

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ve to take care of the civil society's entrusted liberties and properties -- that indeed, the absence of response from our grievances is an illustration of a breach of this social contract we have agreed upon to enter.

Let me remind you Locke's discussion of this social contract in the Second Treatise on Government. He asserted, "[f]or the end of civil society being to avoid and remedy those inconveniences of the state of Nature which necessarily follow from every man's being judge in his own case, by setting up a known authority to which every one of that society may appeal upon any injury received, or controversy that may arise, and which every one of the society ought to obey..." We believed that much like the illustration of a monarchy that Locke demonstrated in Treatise, the government has become more of a monarchy than an assigned representative of the civil society. By refusing to accomplish your function and task of allocating people's money for social services and other programs for development, you have proven yourself an independent agent that does not take into consideration people's opinions and welfare.

We refuse to be "governed" by someone like you, who behaved the same way as monarchs do. We refuse to engage in a social contract with you, an independent agent who cannot safeguard the entrusted liberties of the people of New Orleans. We refuse to give up, once more, our liberties and properties to you, who, after years of governance, has failed to eliminate feelings of restlessness and dissatisfaction among the citizenry. We refuse to be governed by someone who allowed the crime rate in this state to increase steadily over time. We refuse to be governed by someone who made it look like social services is a privilege to be given at a cost rather than consider it as a citizen's right to have.

And so we revolt. Locke is with us in this, agreeing that indeed, you have usurped the rights of every New Orleans citizen, and made it yours to own. We revolt by refusing to pay our… READ MORE

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ANALYTICAL ESSAY WRITING:

USE LOCKE'S IDEAS TO SUPPORT(OR ARGUE AGAINST)THE CITIZENS' REVOLT IN THE FOLLOWING SCENARIO: THE CITIZENS LIVING IN ONE PARTICULAR SECTION OF NEW ORLEANS HAVE BECOME INTENSELY FRUSTATED AND ANGRY. OVER A YEAR HAS ELAPSED, AND THE PROMISES OF THE LOCAL OR NATIONAL GOVERNMENT TO CLEAN NEIGHBORHOODS OF DEBRIS OR PROVIDE CONSTRUCTION REPAIR HAVE NOT BEEN FULFILLED. CRIME, TOO, SEEMS STILL TO BE OUT OF CONTROL. THE CITIZENS HOLD A MEETING, AND COLLECTIVELY DECIDE TO REVOLT, BY REFUSING TO PAY PROPERTY TAXES OR FEDERAL INCOME TAX. YOU MAY TAKE THE SIDE OF EITHER THE REVOLTING CITIZENS OR A CITY/STATE/NATIONAL OFFICIAL, AND MAY (IF YOU WISH) WRITE IN SIMULATED FIRST PERSON. YOU SHOULD USE SEVERAL BRIEF, HIGHLY SIGNIFICANT QUOTES FROM THE SECOND TREATISE TO BACK UP YOUR POINTS, BUT BE SURE THAT MOST OF THE ESSAY IS IN YOUR OWN PROSE. I SUGGEST THAT YOU DRAW ESPECIALLY, ALTHOUGH NOT NECESSARILY EXCLUSIVELY, ON THE CHAPTERS COMING AFTER CHAPTER V, WHICH DEAL WITH THE FUNCTION OF GOVERNMENT AND WHEN REVOLT AGAINST GOVERNMENT IS JUSTIFIED. YOUR ESSAY SHOULD SHOW, PRIMARILY, THAT YOU UNDERSTAND AND CAN APPLY LOCKE'S ARGUMENTS-CLEVERNESS AND WIT ARE APPRECIATED, BUT DON'T GET OVER-INVOLVED IN DECRIBING OR SETTING UP THE SCENARIO ITSELF OR IN EXERCISING A CREATIVE FLAIR. DO NOT JUST PROVIDE AN INVENTORY OF LOCKE'S IDEAS; YOU SHOULD HAVE A MAIN AND SUBORDINATE POINTS, AND USE RHETORIC APPROPRIATE TO AN ARGUMENT (E.G., CONSIDERING THE "CON" SIDE OF A DEBATE).

GUIDELINES

TITLE: YOUR TITLE IS THE FIRST CHANCE TO MAKE AN IMPRESSION. A VAGUE TITLE THAT COULD FIR ANY OTHER PAPER WRITEEN ON THE SAME AUTHOR GIVES A VAGUE IMPRESSION, INDIATING THAT THE ESSAY TO FOLLOW LACKS A FOCUSED MAIN POINT.

AUDIENCE: ASSUME AN AUDIENCE MUCH LIKE YOUR FELLOW STUDENTS--FAMILIAR WITH WORK, BUT UNFAMILIAR WITH YOUR PARTICULAR APPROACH, AND THEREFORE REQUIRING SPECIFIC EXAMPLES(TEXTUAL EVIDENCE)TO UNDERSTAND APPRECIATE, AND ACCEPT YOUR ANALYSIS AND ARGUMENT. AVOID PLOT SUMMARY HOWEVER.

IDEAS: GOOD IDEAS COME NOT FROM YOUR ABSTRACT MEMORY OF A TECT, BUT FROM YOUR CLOSE READING.I DO NOT EXCEPT YOU TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING "NEW"FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, BUT SOMETHING "NEW" FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE. IF YOU DON;T MAKE A DISCOVERY IN THE PROCESS OF WRITING THE PAPER, IT PROBABLY WILL NOT BE VERY SATISFACTORY.

DEVELOPMENT: GOOD ESSAYS UNFOLD A MAJOR IDEA OR ARGUMENT STAGE BY STAGE, IN A MANNER THAT WILL BE COMPELLING AND CONVINCING TO THE READER

INTRODUCTIONS: KEEP US FOCUSED ON THE TEXT.

BOOK: THE SECOND TREATISE OF GOVERNMENT AND A LETTER CONCERNING TOLERATTION BY JOHN LOCKE

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