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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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§. 161. This power, whilst employed for the benefit of the community and suitably to the trust and ends of the government, is undoubted prerogative, and never is questioned. For the people are very seldom or never scrupulous or nice in the point or questioning of prerogative whilst it is in any tolerable degree employed for the use it was meant — that is, the good of the people, and not manifestly against it. But if there comes to be a question between the executive power and the people about a thing claimed as a prerogative, the tendency of the exercise of such prerogative, to the good or hurt of the people, will easily decide that question.

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