Using the documents as resources, answer the following question.

Why are governments created and what is the role of

government? What benefits and disadvantages are there
to having a government?
FRQ- Documents
Doc A- For no government can have a right to obedience from a
people who have not freely consented to it; which they can never
be supposed to do, till either they are put in a full state of liberty
to choose their government and governors, or at least till they
have such standing laws, to which they have by themselves or
their representatives given their free consent; and also till they
are allowed their due property, which is so to be proprietors of
what they have, that nobody can take away any part of it without
their own consent, without which, men under any government are
not in the state of freemen, but are direct slaves under the force
of war.
John Locke, Second Treatise, 192

Doc B- tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which

nobody can have a right to. And this is making use of the power
any one has in his hands, not for the good of those who are under
it, but for his own private, separate advantage. When the
governor, however entitled, makes not the law, but his will, the
rule; and his commands and actions are not directed to the
preservation of the properties of his people, but the satisfaction of
his own ambition, revenge, covetousness, or any other irregular
passion.
John Locke, Second Treatise, 199
Doc C- We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are
created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with

certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson

Doc D- The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time

with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson

Doc E- What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections

on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be
necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor
internal controls on government would be necessary.
James Madison
Doc F-

Doc G-

Doc H- Communism doesn't work because people like to own

stuff.
Frank Zappa
Doc I- Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which
we use to crush the enemy.
Mao Zedong
Doc J- Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S.
policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves
and their communities out of poverty for good.
Michael Franti