Source: Two Treatises of Government by John Locke (1690) [At Hanover] This text is part of the Internet Modern History Sourcebook. The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and …

But our first object must be a modest historian’s exercise—to establish Locke's text as he wanted it read, to fix it in its historical con- text, Locke's own context, and to demonstrate the …

society remains intact. That is to say, the people constitute in themselves a power su erior to the government. It is an idea which bad great weight in the convention which assembled at …

Locke extremely vague on the law of nature in an early essay held that the law of nature rests ultimately on God’s will; but reason discovers it it is not innate; though sometimes his language …

Such dabbling in politics led Locke to write his Second Treatise on Civil Government, by which he sought to justify the English Revolution and a century later served as a theo-retical ground of …

Sep 5, 2017 · SECOND TREATISE OF GOVERNMENT by JOHN LOCKE " was published in 1690. The complete unabridged text has been republished several times in edited …

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity ... and so he becomes dangerous to mankind, the tie which is to …