Second Treatise Chapters 16-19
Chapter 16 Of Conquest 175. THOUGH governments can originally have no other rise than that before mentioned, nor polities be founded on anything but the consent of the people, yet […]
Second Treatise Chapters 13-15
Chapter 13 Of the Subordination of the Powers of the Commonwealth 149. THOUGH in a constituted commonwealth standing upon its own basis and acting according to its own nature- […]
Second Treatise Chapters 10-12
Chapter 10 Of the Forms of a Commonwealth 132. THE majority having, as has been showed, upon men’s first uniting into society, the whole power of the community naturally […]
Second Treatise Chapters 07-09
Chapter 7 Of Political or Civil Society 77. GOD, having made man such a creature that, in His own judgment, it was not good for him to be alone, […]
Second Treatise Chapters 04-06
Chapter 4 Of Slavery 21. 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 […]
Second Treatise Chapters 01-03
Chapter 1 Of Political Power Sec 1. It having been shown in the foregoing discourse:* Firstly. That Adam had not, either by natural right of fatherhood or by positive donation […]