John locke and thomas jefferson both believed that the purpose of the government is to protect the rights of citizens. do you believe that this is the purpose of the government? and, do you believe that the government does this today? explain your reasoning.

Yes, I believe that the purpose of the government is to assure and protect the rights of the citizens because the citizens give the power to their representatives to defend their rights and pass laws that will help the government with that.

I believe that the government does that today because now democracy is even more spread, all people have the right to vote and have ways of demanding things and solutions from the government, which makes it even harder for the government to ignore people’s demands.

It is important to say that after the end of WWII the notion of rights being protected by the government became even more important with the adoption of the concept of human dignity (that is a natural right just like the ones John Locke appointed) in many constitutions around the world.

nativists tried to get rid of the immigrants as they thought they were going to ruin the u.s.  

the  equal rights amendment  (era) states: "equality  of  rights  under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the united states or by any state on account of sex." congress first introduced the era in 1923, but the campaign for ratification took off in the 1960s during the  civil rightsmovement.