Answer the following questions in detail using references from the texts. You must answer all the questions (4 questions). Your paper must be 2000 words total for all the questions. With footnotes and references depending on the format (MLA, APA, Chicago Style) you choose.
Answer the questions in the successive order.
1- Explain to what extent John Locke’s liberal conception of politics and government influenced the formation of American constitution and government. Consider ideas of liberty, rights of the individual (citizen), the right to property, and balance and the separation of powers (the legislative, the executive, and the judiciary). And, to what extent Thomas Hobbes influenced the formation of American constitution and government. In terms of security, protection, and a strong central government.
2-Why the framers preferred Hobbes’s and Locke’s ideas rather than Rousseau’s ideas?
3- Why the Federalists argued for a republican form of government rather than direct democracy? Considering the new modes of communications available today, is direct democracy a possibility?
4-What is Howard Zinn’s critique of the framers of the constitution with regard to race, gender, and class?
In order to answer these questions, you must refer to Hobbes’s, Locke’s, and Rousseau’s political ideas as well asThe Federalist Papers,No. 9 (pp. 66-71), No.10 (pp. 71-79), No.39, (pp.236-243), andA People’s History of the United States.