Political Treatise

The main points of this paper are touched in the attached documents. The main point of this paper is to create a thought or a position on a subject (prefer the governments role in providing healthcare, free education, tax reduction, welfare programs to help the less fortunate) and defend it using different philosophical schools of principles and by comparing and contrasting the position to one of the sources linked below. ____ sources needed: The Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights St Thomas Utopia: https://literatureproject.com/utopia/index.htm St Augustine’s City of God: http://home.newadvent.org/fathers/1201.htm St Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics (pages 3-329, 44-58, 60-80 might be the most useful) Pope Boniface VIII Unam Sanctam : https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/B8-unam.asp Martin Luther: Freedom of the Christian and Secular Authority: To what Extend it should be obeyed. Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan ( might be the most useful when discussing forms of government and their preferred method of operation) John Locke: The Federalist Papers (might be useful as above when comparing forms of government and their method of operation ) __ The Below sources can also be used for arguments in the theological presuppositions in the paper. Book of Genesis Book of Exodus Gospel of Matthew Gospel of Luke Gospel of John