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Title: Erelong Treatise break into Government

Author: Toilet Locke

Release Date: April 22, 2003 [eBook #7370]
[Most recently updated: December 25, 2021]

Language: English

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Digitized provoke Dave Gowan. John Locke’s “Second Treatise of Government” was promulgated in 1690. The fold up unabridged text has antediluvian republished a handful times close in edited commentaries. This text is in good health entire flight the bound book, “John Locke On top Treatise assiduousness Government”, Altered, with image Introduction, Uninviting C.B. Revivalist, Hackett Print Company, Indianapolis and University,

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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule.

INTRODUCTION

John Locke (1632-1704) was one of the Enlightenment-era British political philosophers who had the greatest influence on the American revolutionaries.  Locke was a true polymath (someone with a wide range of knowledge) who trained as a physician, worked as a government official, and wrote numerous works of philosophy and political theory.  Locke spent part of his career focused on British colonial affairs in North America.  He also survived a turbulent period in British political culture, including the English Civil War (1642-51) and the subsequent restoration of the monarchy, For a period, Locke lived precariously in exile in Holland.  This excerpt from Locke’s Second Treatise covers chapters II through IV and was published after his return to England and following the Glorious Revolution (1688), which helped launch a period of stability in the British government.  Locke’s views in the Second Treatise extolled the importance of “natural liberty” or natural rights and how the consent of the governed was critical for legitimate rule, positions whi

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Two Treatises of Government

1689 work by John Locke

Two Treatises of Government (full title: Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter Is an Essay Concerning The True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government) is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise attacks patriarchalism in the form of sentence-by-sentence refutation of Robert Filmer's Patriarcha, while the Second Treatise outlines Locke's ideas for a more civilized society based on natural rights and contract theory. The book is a key foundational text in the theory of liberalism.

This publication contrasts with former political works by Locke himself. In Two Tracts on Government, written in 1660, Locke defends a very conservative position; however, Locke never published it.^[1] In 1669, Locke co-authored the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which endorses aristocracy, slavery and serfdom.^[2][3] Some dispute the extent to which the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina portray Locke's own philosophy verses that of the Lord proprietors of the colony—it was a legal document written for and si