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The works of John Locke. v. 5

  
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Of Civil Government Book II Chapter 1 Of Political Power
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Chapter 2 Of the State of Nature
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Chapter 3 Of the State of War
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Chapter 4 Of Slavery
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Chapter 5 Of Property
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Chapter 6 Of Paternal Power
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Chapter 7 Of Political or Civil Society
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Chapter 8 Of the Beginning of Political Societies
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Chapter 9 Of the Ends of Political Society and Government
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Chapter 10 Of the Forms of a Commonwealth
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Chapter 11 Of the Extent of the Legislative Power
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Chapter 12 The Legislative, Executive, and Federative Power of the Commonwealth
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Chapter 13 Of the Subordination of the Powers of the Commonwealth
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Chapter 14 Of Prerogative
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Chapter 15 Of Paternal, Political and Despotical Power Considered Together
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Chapter 16 Of Conquest
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Chapter 19 Of the Dissolution of Government
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CONTENTS OF THE TWO TREATISES ON GOVERNMENT
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§. 92. For he that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read but the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary. He that would have been insolent and injurious in the woods of America would not probably be much better on a throne, where perhaps learning and religion shall be found out to justify all that he shall do to his subjects, and the sword presently silence all those that dare question it. For what the protection of absolute monarchy is, what kind of fathers of their countries it makes princes to be, and to what a degree of happiness and security it carries civil society, where this sort of government is grown to perfection, he that will look into the late relation of Ceylon may easily see.

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