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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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§. 124. The great and chief end, therefore, of men uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property; to which in the state of Nature there are many things wanting.

Firstly, there wants an established, settled, known law, received and allowed by common consent to be the standard of right and wrong, and the common measure to decide all controversies between them. For though the law of Nature be plain and intelligible to all rational creatures, yet men, being biased by their interest, as well as ignorant for want of study of it, are not apt to allow of it as a law binding to them in the application of it to their particular cases.

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