Term Paper on "Individual Freedom"

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The Resolutions go on to state that the Parliament has been non-compliant with the system, but the value of the system was not undervalued. Benjamin Franklin ensured that the rights of the individual man had to be protected by, with, and for a great good in his autobiography. "In our way thither," he wrote, "I projected and drew a plan for the union of all the colonies under one government, so far as it might be necessary for defense, and other important general purposes."

These general purposes include the rights later provided to the states, federal government, and those left to be protected for the individual in the American Constitution, but it is in their early synthesize in the burgeoning political philosophy that they are born.

"Tis not in numbers but in unity that our great strength lies: yet our present numbers are sufficient to repel the force of all the world."

With these words, Paine succinctly displays the heart of the American political philosophy into which all the other works are written. By guaranteeing a certain separation and allowing for the individuality of the states, the United States government does not usurp the liberties of the individual for the sake of the common good, but instead reverts their channeling through directly-elected local and state officials who then are able to properly lead the greater cause of American government politics, with threat of elected revocation of power should representation be neither sufficient nor accurate. These conclusions were most incorporated into the American will not in the work of its politicians, but in its very citizens. In Letters From An American Farmer, J. Hector St. John De Crevecoeur writes of the careful balance of freeman and his representative government, "What then is the American, this new man? ... He is an American, who, leaving behind all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds."

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