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Second treatise of government/, John Locke

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Second treatise of government/, John Locke

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eng

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non fiction

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Second treatise of government/

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John Locke

Summary

The Second Treatise is one of the most inportant political treatises ever written and one of the most far-reaching in its influence. In his provocative 15-page introduction to this edition, the late eminent political theorist C. B. Macpherson examines Locke's arguments for limited, conditional government, private property, and the right of revolution and suggests reasons for the appeal of these arguments in Locke's time and since

Table Of Contents

1. The Introduction -- 2. Of the State of Nature -- 3. Of the State of War -- 4. Of Slavery -- 5. Of Property -- 6. Of Paternal Power -- 7. Of Political or Civil Society -- 8. Of the Beginning of Political Societies -- 9. Of the Ends of Political Society and Government -- 10. Of the Forms of a Commonwealth -- 11. Of the Extent of the Legislative Power -- 12. Of the Legislative, Executive, and Federative power of the Commonwealth -- 13. Of the Subordination of the Power of the Commonwealth -- 14. Of Prerogative -- 15. Of Paternal, Political, and Despotical Power Consider'd Together -- 16. Of Conquest -- 17. Of Usurpation -- 18. Of Tyranny -- 19. Of the Dissolution of Government

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