John Locke's Social Contract, and its Fine Print

In John Locke's "Second Treatise of Government," Locke discusses the process by which humanity comes to exit the state of nature, and enter into a social contract to be governed. Locke, although he would prefer a representative form of government, does concede that the social contractors can choose a form "such as they shall think fit (p.111)," as long as it is by majority decision. The people entrust the authority to "preserve his property, that …

…in human nature, and should not the government's role be to protect the people from their own flaws and set them upon the right path? The needs of an individual person, whether they are to break free of a self proclaimed oppressive government, do not outweigh the needs of the rest of society, but individual problems should not be swept under the rug and Locke has seemed to deem that government to hold the broom.