Did you define and unpack the concepts you used?

Your paper needs to provide the most convincing demonstration of one of these theses under one of these perspectives: conservative; socialist; republican; libertarian.
Your answer needs to refer to at least one of the primary texts that we have read in class (from Burke, Oakeshott, Marx, Publius and Friedman). Do not forget that a good demonstration necessarily entails internal objections. Your paper should be 5 pages long (font 12; double-spaced).
There is no freedom without private property.
As long as there is private property, humans are not going to be free.
State interference on individual freedom should be as limited as possible.
The pursuit of self-interest has to be restrained.
One of the most important political goals is the end of inequality.
The most important political goals are social stability and economic prosperity.
Tyranny of the majority is a strong danger that good institutions can prevent.
A free country is a country with a strong army.
Well-designed institutions are more important than virtuous citizens.
A large country needs a strong government.
Evaluation criteria:
Did you provide a convincing demonstration of the thesis you chose?
Did you explain what was controversial or problematic about this thesis?
Did you explain what kind of problem this thesis aimed to answer?
Did you define and unpack the concepts you used?
Did you provide justifications for all your arguments?
Did you adequately refer to the primary texts?
Did you give plausible objections to your thesis? Did you answer these objections?
Did you use your five pages in the most efficient way?
Did you proofread your paper?
Locke, Two Treatises of Government, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Wollstonecraft, Vindications on the Rights of Woman, Oxford University Press (Oxford World’s Classics), 1999.
Mill, On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, Oxford University Press (Oxford World’s Classics), 2015.
Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Hackett Publishing Company, 1987.
Hamilton, Madison and Jay The Federalist Papers, With Letters of Brutus, CUP, 2003.