The Second Treatise of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration

by Locke, John

• ISBN13: 9780486424644
• ISBN10: 0486424642
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-14
• Publisher: DOVER PUBLICATIONS

Summary

The first of these two highly influential documents refutes the concept of monarchy's divine right. The second argues for a broad acceptance of alternative religious convictions. The basis of social and political philosophy for generations, these books laid the foundation of the modern democratic state in England and abroad.

Table of Contents

An Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent and End of Civil Government
I	1	(1)
Of the State of Nature	2	(6)
Of the State of War	8	(2)
Of Slavery	10	(2)
Of Property	12	(11)
Of Paternal Power	23	(12)
Of Political or Civil Society	35	(9)
Of the Beginning of Political Societies	44	(13)
Of the Ends of Political Society and Government	57	(2)
Of the Forms of a Commonwealth	59	(1)
Of the Extent of the Legislative Power	60	(6)
Of the Legislative, Executive, and Federative Power of the Commonwealth	66	(2)
Of the Subordination of the Powers of the Commonwealth	68	(6)
Of Prerogative	74	(4)
Of Paternal, Political, and Despotical Power Considered Together	78	(3)
Of Conquest	81	(9)
Of Usurpation	90	(1)
Of Tyranny	91	(5)
Of the Dissolution of Government	96	(17)
A Letter Concerning Toleration	113