Second Treatise on Government

Name: Second Treatise on Government
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ISBN: 9780915144860

ISBN-10: 0915144867

ISBN-13: 9780915144860

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Authors: John Locke, C. B. Macpherson

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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,…

Book details

List price: $8.50
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/1/1980
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 148
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.50" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English

C.B. Macpherson (1911-1987), FRSC, was an emeritus professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto and the author of many influential books on Canadian politics and culture.



Introduction


Note on the Text


Principal dates


Second Treatise of Government



(Summary of the First Treatise)



Of the State of Nature



Of the State of War



Of Slavery



Of Property



Of Paternal Power



Of Political or Civil Society



Of the Beginning of Political Societies



Of the Ends of Political Society and Government



Of the Forms of a Commonwealth



Of the Extent of the Legislative Power



Of the Legislative, Executive, and Federative Power of the Commonwealth



Of the Subordination of the Powers of the Commonwealth



Of Prerogative



Of Paternal, Political and Despotical Power, Considered Together



Of Conquest



Of Usurpation



Of Tyranny



Of the Dissolution of Government


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