Authors: John Locke

Of Property

Source: John Locke, “Of Property” in Two Treatises of Government, ed. Thomas Hollis (London: A. Millar, [1689] 1764). http:// oll.libertyfund.org/title/222. Accessed: January 30, 2020. §.26. God, who hath given the

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1491–1764

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

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1491–1764

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-

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1491–1764

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

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1491–1764

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

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