How do Locke’s reflections on the state of nature

Choose one of the two prompts.

5 pages, 12 pt. Times New Roman, double-spaced.

Give your paper a title that indicates its theme or your argument.

Option 1:

How do Locke’s reflections on the state of nature (in Chapter II of the Second Treatise) establish the proper ends of government (in Chapter IX)?

Option 2:

What are Montesquieu’s arguments against democracy (or what he sometimes calls popular government)? What makes the English constitution (as described in Book XI, chapter 6) a superior form of government?