The Second Treatise of Civil Government

John Locke's Second Treatise of Government was one of the most influential works read by America's Founding Fathers. As Thomas P. Peardon wrote, "John Locke was] . . . a main source of the ideas of the American Revolution of 1776. . . . So close is the Declaration of Independence to Locke in form...

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The Second Treatise of Civil Government

Preface
Chapter I.
Chapter II. Of the State of Nature.
Chapter III. Of the State of War.
Chapter IV. Of Slavery.
Chapter V. Of Property.
Chapter VI. Of Paternal Power.
Chapter VII. Of Political or Civil Society.
Chapter VIII. Of the Beginning of Political Societies.
Chapter IX. Of the Ends of Political Society and Government.
Chapter X. Of the Forms of a Common-wealth.
Chapter XII. Of the Legislative, Executive, and Federative Power of the Common-wealth.
Chapter XIII. Of the Subordination of the Powers of the Common-wealth.
Chapter XIV. Of Prerogative.
Chapter XV. Of Paternal, Political, and Despotical Power, considered together.
Chapter XVI. Of Conquest.
Chapter XVII. Of Usurpation.
Chapter XVII. Of Usurpation.
Chapter XIX. Of the Dissolution of Government.

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