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	John Locke Bibliography--Part I -- Two treatises of government
		100 Two treatises of government: in the former, the false principles, and foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and his followers, are detected and overthrown.
		101 Two treatises of government: in the former, the false principles, and foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and his followers, are detected and overthrown.
		103 Two treatises of government: in the former, the false principles and foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and his followers are detected and overthrown.
	www.libraries.psu.edu /tas/locke/ch0c.html (3537 words)

	Two Treatises of Government - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Two Treatises of Government is a work of political philosophy published in 1689 by John Locke.
		The Two Treatises culminate in a defense of resistance to tyranny.
		A theory of property is central to Locke's understanding of the role of civil government, a main function of which is to protect this property.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Two_Treatises_of_Civil_Government (2997 words)

	Second Treatise on Government (Chapter VIII)
		Government is everywhere antecedent to records, and letters seldom come in amongst a people till a long continuation of civil society has, by other more necessary arts, provided for their safety, ease, and plenty.
		But it is plain governments themselves understand it otherwise; they claim no power over the son because of that they had over the father; nor look on children as being their subjects, by their fathers being so.
		And thus we see that foreigners, by living all their lives under another government, and enjoying the privileges and protection of it, though they are bound, even in conscience, to submit to its administration as far forth as any denizen, yet do not thereby come to be subjects or members of that commonwealth.
	libertyonline.hypermall.com /Locke/second/second-8.html (2701 words)

	John Locke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Though the exact dates of the composition of the Two Treatises are a matter of dispute, it is clear that the bulk of the writing took place in the period from 1679-1682.
		The Second Treatise, or On Civil Government, purports on its face to justify the Glorious Revolution by 1) developing a theory of legitimate government and 2) arguing that the people may remove a regime that violates that theory; Locke leaves it to his readers to understand that James II of England had done so.
		Once government is dissolved, the people are free to erect a new one and to oppose those who claim authority under the old one, i.e., to revolt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Locke (1916 words)

	Locke's Two Treatises
		The same measures governed the possession of land too: whatsoever he tilled and reaped, laid up and made use of, before it spoiled, that was his peculiar right; whatsoever he enclosed, and could feed, and make use of, the cattle and product was also his.
		It is plain then, by the practice of governments themselves, as well as by the law of right reason, that a child is born a subject of no country or government.
		And thus we see, that foreigners, by living all their lives under another government, and enjoying the privileges and protection of it, though they are bound, even in conscience, to submit to its administration, as far forth as any denison; yet do not thereby come to be subjects or members of that common- wealth.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~kimball/locke.2.treatises.htm (6392 words)

	John Locke Essay concerning Human Understanding
		What might be called civil societies originate where, for the better administration of the law in relation to the protection of life, liberty, and property, men agree to delegate this function to certain officers.
		Thus the government of civil societies is initiated by an implicit, but effective, "social contract".
		Locke maintained, in his Two Treatises of Government published just as it was just after an English revolution (for which Locke was to be something of an apologist), that revolution was not only a right but was often an effective obligation where states denied the operation of civil and natural law.
	www.age-of-the-sage.org /philosophy/john_locke_works.html (1232 words)

	Locke and Slavery
		When Locke comes to explain how government comes into being, he uses the idea that people agree that their condition in the state of nature is unsatisfactory, and so agree to transfer some of their rights to a central government, while retaining others.
		The aim of such a government is to preserve, so far as possible, the rights to life, liberty, health and property of its citizens, and to prosecute and punish those of its citizens who violate the rights of others.
		Given this characterization of legitimate civil government and all that has led up to it you ought to be able at this point to explain what characterizes the functioning of an illegitimate civil government.
	oregonstate.edu /instruct/phl302/distance_arc/locke/locke-civil-gov-lec.html (5482 words)

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		The Two Treatises culminate in a defense of resistance to tyranny.
		The Second Treatise was traditionally taken to be a refutation of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan, the latter's support of absolute monarchism seemingly antithetical to Locke's ideal majoritarian government.
		Richard Ashcraft argued in Revolutionary Politics and Locke's "Two Treatises of Government" that Locke instead wrote the Two Treatises later, and that he should therefore be associated with the Radical Whigs and the intrigues surrounding the Rye House Plot and the Monmouth Rebellion.
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	The Early Reception of John Locke's Two Treaties of Government: 1668-1702 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Treatises’ anonymity may have adversely affected the attention and authority paid to them for the response to some of his earlier works, especially his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, indicates Locke was well respected as both a philosopher and a writer.
		It is interesting to note that the references to the Two Treatises all occur in the first three of the fourteen dialogues (i.e., those concerned with the refutation of partriarchalism and the establishment of a right of resistance), and that by far the majority of them were references to the First Treatise.
		The evidence of the early reception of the Two Treatises indicates that the work was not an immediate success in either providing a philosophy for the Whigs or in justifying the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
	history.hanover.edu /hhr/99/hhr99_1.html (6007 words)

	Amazon.com: Two Treatises of Government: Books: John Locke,Peter Laslett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The First Treatise is devoted primarily to demolishing the notion that monarchial rule is divinely sanctioned and is mainly of interest to scholars.
		This is the origin of government, which rests on the consent of the governed and is supposed to be in the service of the governed.
		Locke writes the "Second Treatise of Government" to justify the Revolt of 1688 and the ascension of William of Orange to the English throne.
	www.amazon.com /Two-Treatises-Government-John-Locke/dp/0521357306 (4062 words)

	John Locke -- Overview [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		In Two Treatises of Government he has two purposes in view: to refute the doctrine of the divine and absolute right of the Monarch, as it had been put forward by Robert Filmer's Patriarcha, and to establish a theory which would reconcile the liberty of the citizen with political order.
		It is a rendering of the facts of constitutional government in terms of thought, and it served its purpose as a justification of the Revolution settlement in accordance with the ideas of the time.
		He holds that the civil magistrate has duties to the church, and that he ought to give facilities and protection to its ministers, not merely as citizens but as preachers of "the truth"; on the other hand he argues that civil or corporeal penalties are inappropriate as punishments for offences which are purely spiritual.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/l/locke.htm (7770 words)

	Modern History Sourcebook: John Locke: Two Treatises of Government, 1690
		To which it may suffice as an answer at present, that since all princes and rulers of independent governments all through the world, are in a state of nature, it is plain the world never was, nor ever will be, without numbers of men in that state.
		For all the ends of marriage being to be obtained under politic government, as well as in the state of nature, the civil magistrate cloth not abridge the right or power of either naturally necessary to those ends, viz.
		And this puts men out of a state of nature into that of a common-wealth, by setting up a judge on earth, with authority to determine all the controversies, and redress the injuries that may happen to any member of the commonwealth; which judge is the legislative, or magistrates appointed by it.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/1690locke-sel.html (1489 words)

	Locke, Two Treatises of Government (1689, 1764 ed.): The Online Library of Liberty
		Reader, thou hast here the beginning and end of a discourse concerning government; what fate has otherwise disposed of the papers that should have filled up the middle, and were more than all the rest, it is not worth while to tell thee.
		If this be the original grant of government, as our author tells us, and Adam was now made monarch, whatever Sir Robert would have him, it is plain, God made him but a very poor monarch, such an one, as our author himself would have counted it no great privilege to be.
		And thus we have examined the two places of scripture, all that I remember our author brings to prove Adam’s sovereignty, that supremacy, which he says, it was God’s ordinance should be unlimited in Adam, and as large as all the acts of his will, Observations, 254.
	oll.libertyfund.org /Texts/Locke0154/TwoTreatises/0057_Bk.html (7612 words)

	Locke: Government
		(2nd Treatise §4) What prevents this natural state from being a violent Hobbesian free-for-all, according to Locke, is that each individual shares in the use of the faculty of reason, so that the actions of every human agent—even in the unreconstructed state of nature—are bound by the self-evident laws of nature.
		(2nd Treatise §134-8) Because the laws are established and applied equally to all, Locke argued, this is not merely an exercize in the arbitrary use of power, but an effort to secure the rights of all more securely than would be possible under the independence and equality of the state of nature.
		(2nd Treatise §168) Remember that according to Locke all legitimate political power derives solely from the consent of the governed to entrust their "lives, liberties, and possessions" to the oversight of the community as a whole, as expressed in the majority of its legislative body.
	www.philosophypages.com /hy/4n.htm (1702 words)

	John Locke -- Overview [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		In Two Treatises of Government he has two purposes in view: to refute the doctrine of the divine and absolute right of the Monarch, as it had been put forward by Robert Filmer's Patriarcha, and to establish a theory which would reconcile the liberty of the citizen with political order.
		It is a rendering of the facts of constitutional government in terms of thought, and it served its purpose as a justification of the Revolution settlement in accordance with the ideas of the time.
		He holds that the civil magistrate has duties to the church, and that he ought to give facilities and protection to its ministers, not merely as citizens but as preachers of "the truth"; on the other hand he argues that civil or corporeal penalties are inappropriate as punishments for offences which are purely spiritual.
	www.iep.utm.edu /l/locke.htm (7767 words)

	PHIL 205 - LEARN - The University of Auckland Library
		The Second Treatise of Civil Government: and A Letter Concerning Toleration.
		Two Treatises of Government; With a Supplement Patriarcha, by Robert Filmer.
		Some databases will search for two separate words as a phrase, while many databases require the phrase to be inside quotes, eg "state of nature".
	www.library.auckland.ac.nz /subjects/philos/course-pages/Phi205.htm (1556 words)

	John Locke
		When Locke comes to explain how government comes into being, he uses the idea that people agree that their condition in the state of nature is unsatisfactory, and so agree to transfer some of their rights to a central government, while retaining others.
		An illegitimate civil government will fail to protect the rights to life, liberty, health and property of its subjects, and in the worst cases, such an illegitimate government will claim to be able to violate the rights of its subjects, that is it will claim to have despotic power over its subjects.
		A legitimate civil government seeks to preserve the life, health, liberty and property of its subjects, insofar as this is compatible with the public good.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/locke (16664 words)

	THE PROPER ROLE OF GOVERNMENT by The Honorable Ezra Taft Benson Former Secretary of Agriculture to President Eisenhower ...
		And so far as government is concerned the smaller the unit and the closer it is to the people, the easier it is to guide it, to keep it solvent and to keep our freedom.
		Let the national government be entrusted with the defense of the nation, and its foreign and federal relations; the State governments with the civil rights, law, police, and administration of what concerns the State generally; the counties with the local concerns of the counties, and each ward direct the interests within itself.
		The basic concept is that the government has full responsibility for the welfare of the people and, in order to discharge that responsibility, must assume control of all their activities.
	www.ldshea.org /pages/left_sidebar/proper_role_of_government.htm (6066 words)

	Civic Education Lesson 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		You will also learn how they believed governments should be created and what they ought to do.
		He said that the main purpose of government should be to protect the people's natural rights.
		A social compact is an agreement people make among themselves to create a government to rule them and protect their natural rights.
	www.civnet.org /resources/teach/lessplan/level2a.htm (762 words)

	Locke - Second Treatise; Contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Chapter 7 - Of Political or Civil Society
		Chapter 9 - Of the Ends of Political Society and Government
		Chapter 19 - Of the Dissolution of Government
	www.swan.ac.uk /poli/texts/locke/lockcont.htm (104 words)

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		The Project Gutenberg EBook of Two Treatises of Government, by John Locke Copyright laws are changing all over the world.
		John Locke's "Second Treatise of Government" was published in 1690.
		It is true, in land that is common in England, or any other country, where there is plenty of people under government, who have money and commerce, no one can inclose or appropriate any part, without the consent of all his fellow-commoners; because this is left common by compact, i.e.
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	The Proper Role of Government by Ezra Taft Benson
		The important thing to keep in mind is that the people in mind is that the people who have created their government can give to that government only such powers as they, themselves, have in the first place.
		Government is created by man. No mted by man. No man possesses such power to delegate.
		Things The Government Should Not Do A category of government activity which, today, not only requires the closest scrutiny, but which also poses a grave danger to our continued freedom, is the activity NOT within the proper sphere of government.
	www.zionsbest.com /proper_role.html (6109 words)

	Essay World - The biggest online essay resource site - 166-012
		A 9 page paper which analyzes the pros and cons of John Locke's 'Two Treatises on Civil Government' in terms of how it applied to the revolutionary.
		Explores in particular Locke's belief in government by and for the people and emphasizes his support of the common man and claims that no man had the right to rule over another without their consent.
		It was the height of the cold war, an era of paranoia and covert operations.
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		Since everyone is born under some government, nobody is rightfully free to form a new one by compact (113).
		Absolute monarchy, in which one person is the final arbiter of all controversies and consequently effectively remains in the state of nature, is incompatible with the ends of civil society, for no protection from the "violence and oppression" of such a ruler could be found (90, 93).
		A constitutional monarchy with a separation of the legislative from the executive (in the hands of the monarch) is the form of government Lk preferred (159).
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		Two Treatises of Civil Government, along with On Politics and
		government is intended to act for the good of its entire society.
		government took power, the contract is no longer valid.
	www.yucc.yorku.ca /~rickg/academics/hobesvlo.html (2082 words)

	John Locke
		Locke's Two Treatises of Civil Government were published after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 brought William of Orange and Mary to the throne, but they were written in the throes of the Whig revolutionary plots against Charles II in the early 1680s.
		In this work Locke gives us a theory of natural law and natural rights which he uses to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate civil governments, and to argue for the legitimacy of revolt against tyrannical governments.
		The Second Treatise of Civil Government There are many fine editions of this book.
	www.oregonstate.edu /instruct/phl302/philosophers/locke.html (1466 words)

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