Second Treatise of Government

By: John Locke, C. B. Macpherson (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 June 1980

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The central principles of what today is broadly known as political liberalism were made current in large part by Locke's "Second Treatise of Government" (1690). The principles of individual liberty, the rule of law, government by consent of the people, and the right to private property are taken for granted as fundamental to the human condition now. Most liberal theorists writing today look back to Locke as the source of their ideas. Some maintain that religious fundamentalism, "post-modernism," and socialism are today the only remaining ideological threats to liberalism. To the extent that this is true, these ideologies are ultimately attacks on the ideas that Locke, arguably more than any other, helped to make the universal vocabulary of political discourse.

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Macpherson provides for his readers a tightly written, meaty, and often invigorating critical assessment of Locke's argument. In it one finds some of the best of Macpherson's now famous criticism of liberal-democratic government. --Gregory E. Pyrcz in Canadian Philosophical Review

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Introduction	p. vii
Note on the Text	p. xlv
Principal dates	p. xlvii
Second Treatise of Government
(Summary of the First Treatise)	p. 1
Of the State of Nature	p. 3
Of the State of War	p. 11
Of Slavery	p. 15
Of Property	p. 17
Of Paternal Power	p. 32
Of Political or Civil Society	p. 47
Of the Beginning of Political Societies	p. 58
Of the Ends of Political Society and Government	p. 75
Of the Forms of a Commonwealth	p. 79
Of the Extent of the Legislative Power	p. 81
Of the Legislative, Executive, and Federative Power of the Commonwealth	p. 89
Of the Subordination of the Powers of the Commonwealth	p. 92
Of Prerogative	p. 99
Of Paternal, Political and Despotical Power, Considered Together	p. 105
Of Conquest	p. 109
Of Usurpation	p. 121
Of Tyranny	p. 123
Of the Dissolution of Government	p. 130
Bibliography	p. 149
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