Two Treatises of Government

By Locke, John

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Title:	Two Treatises of Government
Author:	Locke, John
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Language:	English
Subject:	Political science., Economics and literature, Economic & political studies series
Collections:	Economics Publications Collection
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Publisher:	Archive for the History of Economic Thought


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Excerpt
Excerpt: Chapter I. 1. Slavery is so vile and miserable an estate of man, and so directly opposite to the generous temper and courage of our nation, that it is hardly to be conceived that an Englishman, much less a gentleman, should plead for it. And truly I should have taken sir Robert Filmer?s Patriarcha, as any other treatise, which would persuade all mere that they are slaves, and ought to be so, for such another exercise of wit as was his who writ the encomium of Nero; rather than for a serious discourse, meant in earnest: had not the gravity of the title and epistle, the picture in the front of the book, and the applause that followed it, required me to believe that the author and publisher were both in earnest. I therefore took it into my hands with all the expectation, and read it through with all the attention due to a treatise that made such a noise at its coming abroad; and cannot but confess myself mightily surprised that in a book, which was to provide chains for all mankind, I should find nothing but a rope of sand; useful perhaps to such whose skill and business it is to wise a dust, and would blind the people, the better to mislead them; but in truth not of any force to draw those into bondage who have their eyes open, and so much sense about them, as to consider that chains are but an ill wearing, how much care soever hath been taken to file and polish them.

Table of Contents
Contents The Preface ........................................................................................ 5 Essay One: The False Principles and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown .......... 7 I .......................................................................................................... 7 II: Of paternal and regal Power. ......................................................... 9 III: Of Adam?s Title to Sovereignty by Creation. ............................. 14 IV: Of Adam?s Title to Sovereignty, by Donation, ........................... 19 V: Of Adam?s Title to Sovereignty, by the Subjection of Eve .......... 32 VI: Of Adam?s Title to Sovereignty by Fatherhood. ........................ 36 VII: Of Fatherhood and Property considered together as Fountains of Sovereignty ................................................................................ 50 VIII: Of the Conveyance of Adam?s sovereigns monarchical Power 54 IX: Of Monarchy by Inheritance from Adam .................................. 56 X: Of the Heir to Adam?s Monarchical Power. ................................ 67 XI: Who Heir? ................................................................................. 69 Notes .............................................................................................. 104 Essay Two: Concerning the True Original Extent and End of Civil Government ............................................................................. 105 I: Of Political Power ...................................................................... 105 II: Of the State of Nature ............................................................... 106 III: Of the State of War ...................................................................112 IV: Of Slavery .................................................................................114 V: Of Property .................................................................................115 VI: Of Paternal Power ................................................................... 126 VII: Of Political or Civil Society ................................................... 138 VIII: Of the Beginning of Political Societies .................................. 146