In Edmund Burke’s document, the author bases the discussion on the aspect of human rights and freedom. In support the author because he recognizes the fact that both public and individual liberty must be protected in any form of government. He looks at human beings as rational creatures who should be left to be to pursue their own interest in the best way they consider as free agents in the universe. He stresses on the fact that people who have the same origin or rather who belong to one state should be directed together under rational leadership in pursuant of their goals and objectives (Cowie). The author condemns acts of people being paid to kill others by slaughtering them which depicts the highest level of inhumanity and hostility which should not prevail among civilized men and women who are living in the days of enlightenment and who go through the teachings of a merciful religion.
Argument against
I disagree with the author on what he refers to as the appearance of foreign mercenaries in England. His view depicts some sort of racial discrimination against foreigners which should not be practiced by rational human beings. It is true that bad people exist but the author generalizes that all foreigners are connected to domestic quarrel which is not true. Some foreigners have entered England and have adopted the interests and feelings of the people of England and have learned to live by them. The author also talks of common interests and opinion which I disagree with because in a free society people have different views, opinions and interests all which form individual liberty. The author should put in mind that sometimes individual liberty conflicts with public liberty and, therefore, he should not necessarily pass a message of having a common interest.
Document 2: Argument for
In the document, ‘The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America’, I support the authors view that all human beings were created equally by God and granted rights and freedom to exercise. It is true that any form of society should have a government to govern the citizens and if the government appears to be destructive, then the citizens have a right to remove it and institute a new government which puts into consideration their interests. This is the only way people can exercise their God-given rights like happiness, liberty and life. He states that all independent states should be left to be free and operate in ways that deem fit to them (Jefferson). The have a right to enter into contracts as independent bodies, establish commercial links, hold peaceful negotiations and carry out any other act that an independent state is entitled to. After acquisition of independence, no country should be influenced by another in exercise and implementation of its rights.
Argument against
I disagree with claims that a Prince or any other type of leader can refuse to pass laws in the interest of the citizens, refuses to attend to matters of urgency aimed at developing a nation. Such kind of a leader should face the wrath of citizens by taking a vote of no confidence in him/her if applicable. Dissolving a whole House of Representatives for not agreeing with them on matters of human rights and freedom is totally wrong and it simply implies suppression of public liberty. A leader who fights and opposes the elections of others is a great obstacle to the exercise of human rights. It is wrong and unlawful to obstruct justice, influence the judiciary, impose taxes without people’s consent and terminate trade links in an independent nation because it implies acts of colonization and tyranny.
Works cited
Cowie, Leonard W. Edmund Burke, 1729-1797: a bibliography. No. 19. ABC-CLIO, 1994.
Jefferson, Thomas. "The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America." Washington, DC: United States Congress, National Archives and Records Administration. 1776.
