Question: Indicate whether each of the following statements is consistent with an organic or mechanistic view of government:
a. "A strong state for Russians is not an anomaly, not something that must be fought against, but on the contrary is the initiator and main driving force of all change" [Russian President Vladimir Putin].
b. "Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man" [British Philosopher John Locke].