John Locke's Second Treatise of Government?

Question

I need to write a paper for school and the second part of the question asks to address Locke's 2 major assumptions in the second treatise. What exactly are Locke's 2 major assumptions and how would one go about addressing them?

Answer 1

Locke started with a liberal premise of a community of free, equal individuals, all with natural rights. Since these individuals will want to acquire goods and get rich – will lead to inevitable conflict.  To avoid this, Locke invokes a natural law of morality to govern them before they enter into society. Locke presumes people will understand that, in order to best protect themselves and their property, they must come together into some sort of body politic and agree to certain standards of behavior. Thus, they relinquish some of their natural individual rights to enter into a social treaty or agreement.

This is called civil society - people submit natural freedoms to the common laws of the society; in return, they receive the protection of the government. By coming together, the people create an executive power to enforce the laws and punish offenders. The people entrust these laws and the executive power with authority. When, either through an abuse of power or an impermissible change, these governing bodies cease to represent the people and instead represent either themselves or some foreign power, the people may--and indeed shld rebel against their government and replace it with one that will remember its trust. This is most important part of 2nd T, given his motivation in writing the work (justifying opposition to Charles II) and publishing it (justifying the revolution of King William) explaining conditions in which  people has the right to replace one government with another.

Answer 2

this is not the place to ask.  sorry...