"Common Sense" By Thomas Paine

In the document, Common Sense, Thomas Paine argues about America's Independence. 

He begins distinguishing between government and society. Society, according to Paine, is the good constructive well being of the people. People is what makes a society lively and fascinating. A government is what sets the laws of society. The government is suppose to protect society from our own vice. (meaning our actions) That is the sole purpose of government.

From the outset, Paine makes it clear that he is not particularly fond of government, whose sole value he thinks lies in "restraining our vices". For Paine, the natural state of man is to live without government, and government's existence is justified only to the extent that it alleviates problems that would be created by this natural, anarchic way of life. If a government fails to improve society or, worse, actively causes some of the same troubles that would result from anarchy, it is particularly blameworthy.

After reading this, I believe that the governments only job is to protect us. But nowadays the government is slowly trying to control our society.
Though Thomas Paine thinks that the government is evil, I too agree that the people are bad nature in some ways as well. 

"The Rights of the Colonists" by Samuel Adams

The laws of natural rights are life, liberty, and property. Together, these rights make a foundation of what natural rights. In Samuel Adam's sense, men have the right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please. In case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.

The natural liberty of man, by entering into society, is abridged or restrained, so far only as is necessary for the great end of society, the best good of the whole.

In the state of nature every man is, under God, judge and sole judge of his own rights and of the injuries done him. By entering into society he agrees to an arbiter or indifferent judge between him and his neighbors; but he no more renounces his original right than by taking a cause out of the ordinary course of law, and leaving the decision to referees or indifferent arbitrators, according to Adam. 

So, in general, freedom is up to God. Men cannot judge who is free or who's a slave.

According to Samuel Adam's document, he believes that men cannot set laws to state that a man is free. Only one with that kind of power and judge that is good is God. (He mixes Christian beliefs with politics to set the ground and basic law of government in place)

John Wise's "Democracy Is Founded in Scripture"

After reading the passage by John Wise, I outlined it. Democracy is a political form of government the people ruled by the representatives they elected. The representatives create the laws by combining the natural rights of people and then limiting them. In John Wise's written work, he believes that mixing religious laws (Christianity) is considered a frame work of democracy. Giving people too much power is dangerous and probably cause riots toward the government. He considers the people who follow the government not as slaves but as servants.Rulers rely on their servants, which keeps balance in society.
In his written work, his thesis is mainly about the golden rule. The golden rule is laws of natural laws and Christian laws. These laws is what balances democracy. People who oppose the laws are considered unnatural and fosters inequality. These innate the wellness of human beings