Rousseau (Olivia Harrington)

What has the French Revolution done to our government? This new slogan, order, security, and efficiency, has turned our government into a failure. At the beginning of the French Revolution, the slogan was liberty, equality, and fraternity which I agree with because every human should have their natural rights, every human should be treated equal. While Napoleon was emperor, he changed this slogan because he wanted to consolidate his power and strengthen the central government. Liberty, equality, and fraternity ensures freedom among the people, as they were all seen as similar. This slogan establishes freedom throughout the community which is important because I believe that the good of the community ranks higher than individual interests. I also believe that people should work for the good of their community which requires coming together and working as one to complete tasks, in the community, that must be completed. People need to make the community a better place, so society does not corrupt people who were born good. I believe in people being born good, or tabula rasa (with a clean slate), but these good people are corrupted by the people, places, and things that they are surrounded by. For example, the inadequate government could corrupt these people into believing in unfair laws. Liberty, equality, and fraternity is the way to go.