The Idea of Government: The Comparable Views of Locke and Kant

This book is about the discussion of the similarities between John Locke's philosophy of government and that of Immanuel Kant. Notes that each had very definitive ideas of individual rights and the relation of those rights to law and government. Contends that in practically every respect the John Locke's idea of government can be demonstrated to be fully compatible with Immanuel Kant's thesis in "Idea for a Universal History”. A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, often a state, but also other entities, for example, a company. In the case of its broad associative definition, the government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a means, by which organizational policies are enforced, as well as a mechanism for determining policy. Each government has a kind of constitution, a statement of its governing principles and philosophy. Typically the philosophy chosen is some balance between the principle of individual freedom and the idea of absolute state authority (tyranny).