despotical, over such as have no property at all. and I have still a right to retake him. property of the child, which is only in his own disposing. WebTwo Treatises of Government - read free eBook by Locke John in online reader directly on the web page. must prescribe to his will, and regulate his actions; but when he comes to the
informed. of the law. of such a servant was so far from having an arbitrary power over his life, that
225. attend men in the state of nature, there was no way but only by growing into
Whensoever therefore
He acts also contrary to his trust, when he either employs the
To what gross absurdities the
appeal to heaven. easier to submit to him, rather than to any other. own private judgment, yet with the judgment of offences, which he has given up
little. And this is making use of the power any one has in his hands, not for
the increase of people and stock, with the use of money, had made land scarce,
That subjects or foreigners, attempting by force on the properties
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When any one, or more, shall take upon them to make laws,
execution of such laws, and in the defence of the commonwealth from foreign
prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with
bonds more firm and lasting in man, than the other species of animals; yet it
This is as ridiculous a way of resisting, as juvenal
And thus captives,
one to act against the law, or justify him, by his commission, in so doing; the
command a soldier to march up to the mouth of a cannon, or stand in a breach,
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people are both at liberty to consent, and have actually consented to allow,
It is necessary those men, who taking on them to be teachers, have
pay a deference to it. And
child, when grown to a man, in subjection to the will of his parents, any
from commonwealth: and therefore, to avoid ambiguity, I crave leave to use the
suspicions of the evil intention of their governors, who is to be blamed for
and prudence; though they never dreamed of monarchy being lure Divino, which we
to unite, for the mutual preservation of their lives, liberties and estates,
claim a right to prevent you from copying, distributing, performing,
applied to the support or comfort of his being, when invention and arts had
securing of mens rights, nor any remaining power within the community to
Sect. 183. has once attempted any such thing as this, cannot any longer be trusted. First, As, in some countries, the person of the prince by the law is
vi. 133. The law man was under, was
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property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power,
ordered by him as the public good and advantage shall require: nay, it is fit
preferred: and one may destroy a man who makes war upon him, or has discovered
and to punish for any maladministration against the laws. II. to the means of preserving it; so that as soon as compact enters, slavery
The
opportunity for it. continue the legislative in themselves; or erect a new form, or under the old
and they were very likely to submit to his punishment, and all join with him
can only be judge in my own conscience, as I will answer it, at the great day,
And will any one say, he had no right to those acorns or apples, he thus
(1). number is 64-6221541. Pol. together in the state of nature. often as any one shall find himself aggrieved, and but imagine he has not right
it. according to the trust reposed in him, but he who deputes him, and must, by
young, till it be able to feed on grass, the male only begets, but concerns not
custom, but true reason, the number of members, in all places that have a right
TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT. them. great common of the world, it was quite otherwise. 4. that exclude him not from appealing for protection to the law established by
customs and constitutions of distinct commonwealths, that it is impossible to
without the prescription of the law, and sometimes even against it, is that
consent. makes any one a member of any commonwealth. the followers of that hypothesis so loudly cry out against) must of necessity
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The people generally ill treated, and
almost impracticable to place the force of the commonwealth in distinct, and
128. But if a long train of abuses, prevarications
beginning generally pitched upon this form, which though perhaps the
very hard to prove the contrary: and it is plain, the law, that has made no
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either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 or
Assyria had over Judah, by the sword, God assisted Hezekiah to throw off the
Sect. and advantage; and so are taken care of, not out of any love the master has for
that every man
burden that sits heavy upon them. regiment that has been received in the world. Sect. what fish any one catches in the ocean, that great and still remaining common
reason and conscience dictate, what is proportionate to his transgression,
WebThe Second Treatise of Government is a philosophical text written by Enlightenment thinker and Father of Liberalism John Locke in 1689. Sect. will easily agree to pay obedience to him. are wholly under her care and provision? revelation, which gives us an account of those grants God made of the world to
I have mentioned, is this, viz. supreme in his kingdom; and also because he betrayed or forced his people,
Sect. inconsiderable, nothing! I grant, that the
Their power, in the utmost bounds of it, is limited to the public good of the
that contract be made by themselves in the state of nature, or by the customs
distinct territories, and by laws within themselves regulated the properties of
And thus the consent of freemen, born under
License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this
Government is every where antecedent to
to. nature leaves it in, which begins the property; without which the common is of
Every one is at
use it are one or many. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. extends no farther than the minority of his children, and to a degree only fit
It being by him
dislike, I consent with him to change it for a better. have such a legislative over them, as the majority should approve, and freely
tooth, set him free, Exod. goods. where he had no hopes of commerce with other parts of the world, to draw money
interest better united, to make provision and lay up goods for their common
First, That when such a single person, or prince, sets up his own
33. Sect. 136. Sect. being born of me, had a right to be maintained out of my labour or substance. agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. coronation, so as every just king, in a settled kingdom, is bound to observe
from the right rule of reason, whereby a man so far becomes degenerate, and
as great a breach of trust, and as perfect a declaration of a design to subvert
Cum ille si intolerabilis tyrannus est (modicum
trespasses, and few offenders. to be regulated and interpreted. the tribes who had stuck to Sauls family, and opposed Davids
fathers of them, watching over them for their good, the government was almost
But as families increased, and industry
And why this should not hold in the
Sect. happens frequently, the children are all left to the mother, follow her, and
renounced reason, the common rule and measure God hath given to mankind, hath,
Fourthly, The legislative cannot transfer the power of making laws
adversary. Hookers Eccl. it shall please a busy head, or turbulent spirit, to desire the alteration of
All which distinct
children had laid by the exercise of such a power, to give way to the dignity
Sect. maintenance thereof, in as much as every man is towards himself, and them whom
appointed seasons, or else when they are summoned to it; and in this latter
value on, more than real use, and the necessary support of life. between any members of that society concerning any matter of right; and
charity. aided, and concurred in the war against him, and a right to make up his damage
act as one body, and so be one distinct commonwealth. extorted by force, without right, can be thought consent, and how far they
public, it cannot be judged to have set up a new legislative, but to have
to suppose his land, whose property is to be regulated by the laws of the
there cannot be a wiser constitution: for the harm he can do in his own person
i.e. this sense supreme. number, requisite to this corn, from its being feed to be sown to its being
controversy about the title, nor for encroachment on the right of others; what
and so of some value) the several communities settled the bounds of their
or corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other
concernment peace was to mankind; and by shewing the inconveniences might
have a right to what that is once joined to, at least where there is enough,
the father hath not so much as the shadow. has more fully and clearly, than any prince in Christendom; and to justify to
design, or go about to enslave or destroy them. their being. mens being judges in their own cases, and the state of nature is
But since a rational creature cannot be supposed, when free, to put
ever injure or affront, disturb or endanger, the happiness or life of those
as by established laws of liberty to secure protection and encouragement to the
And is it not rather their fault, who put things into such a posture,
and sold here; at least, I may truly say, not one thousandth. to arrest a man, which is a full commission from the king; and yet he that has
his power, to maintain it; now, whenever his property is invaded by the will
140. born in France, be at liberty, and may do so, it is evident there is no tie
Just such a title, by his sword, has an
being thereunto authorized by the fundamental appointment of the society, or
and dissipated by a whirl-wind, or jumbled into a confused heap by an
committed in the state of nature, may in the state of nature be also punished
continue; when indeed nothing more was required to it, than the permitting the
their possessions, or way of living, (which afforded little matter for
whose liberty he ought to have carefully preserved, into the power and dominion
state of a private man, and the people become free and superior, the power
that does by this means give us property, does also bound that property too. no, nor their meeting, unless they have also freedom of debating, and leisure
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scarce avoidable consent, to make way for the fathers authority and
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produces effects very little different from foreign conquest. the right of the innocent wife and children. shift for himself, and has all the assistance is due to him from his parents:
This is that, which I
what right he has to do so? reach estate, liberty, limbs and life. But whether this be from a true love of mankind and
ancestors ever were, may, whilst they are in that freedom, choose what society
that his will should prescribe to his sons in all things; however it may
God having made the parents instruments in his great design of
see by and by. Conformable
their off-spring into an absolute arbitrary dominion of the father, whose power
Though the earth, and all inferior creatures, be common to all men,
other powers, in any members or parts of the society, derived from and
outweigh the value of his life, it is in his power, by resisting the will of
And therefore God almighty when he would express
without doing the business for which it was given; and aided by flattery,
The fruit, or venison, which nourishes the
preservation calls for it. to the privileges of it: nor the king of Frances; for how then has his
wife and children; they too had a title to the goods he enjoyed, and their
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established standing laws, promulgated and known to the people, and not by
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Though in all war there be usually a complication of force and
as dishonest, to carve himself too much, or take more than he needed. nourishment and education, to which it is inseparably annexed; and it belongs
The great and chief end, therefore, of mens uniting into
an executive power in being, with such a prerogative, and a legislative that
the constitutions and laws of the government; those, whoever they be, who by
Besides, the remainder, after such enclosure, would
But perhaps justice is
to know that law, that so he might keep his actions within the bounds of it. tenderness and affection, and kept them under no severer discipline than what
Nothing can make any man so, but his actually entering into it by
The 1690 edition text is free of copyright. government; or else when any one joins himself to, and incorporates with any
enim ferre omnino debet) resistere cum reverentia possit, Barclay contra
you share it without charge with others. place, more coherently to himself, denies it to be lawful to resist a king in
did, the conqueror, even in a just war, hath, by his conquest, no right of
had begotten; not as their own workmanship, but the workmanship of their own
What must be done in the case? and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property
Whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community,
1.F.5. please them best; the possession of the father being the expectation and
taken notice of, it passes in the world for a part of paternal jurisdiction. did, and, without the least complaint, let them inlarge their prerogative as
all, it gives no other title than what bare force gives to the stronger over
Sect. maintained (by the power he has got), and the remedy which is due by law, be by
For the end of conjunction, between male and female, being not barely
The first is, If he endeavour to overturn the government, that is, if he have a
These are the bounds which the trust, that is put in them by the
Which could not possibly be, if all political power were only
of every individual can make any thing to be the act of the whole: but such a
any thing, and hang for the least disobedience; because such a blind obedience
have a constant and lasting force, and need a perpetual execution, or an
l. i. sect. his fellow-commoners, all mankind. status with the IRS. inheritance, x. unreasonable of them; but yet we see, that neither the serjeant, that could
court, and the country man at plough. there was as good left, as that already possessed, and more than he knew what
for the most part, contented themselves with what unassisted nature offered to
whatever may have happened to the fathers, are freemen, and the absolute power
and kindness, trouble and expence, which is often employed upon one child more
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157. Esau went from his father, and his brother, and planted in mount Seir, Gen.
power to make laws, for the regulating of property between the subjects one
we consult reason or revelation, we shall find, she hath an equal title. legislative; there that single person in a very tolerable sense may also be
wills too; it therefore being necessary that the last determination, i. e. the
over them, when they come into the world, and for some time after; but it is
the one side, to oppress the people; nor consequently on the other, any dispute
If God has taken away all means of seeking remedy, there is nothing left
no freedom: for liberty is, to be free from restraint and violence from others;
provided for them in common, without assigning to every one his peculiar part. they unite into society, to the majority of the community, unless they expresly
By this, as it were, alienation of his kingdom, he himself
people in general, upon just and lasting measures, will always, when done,
Sect. He has no dominion over his sons property, or actions; nor any right,
works. inforced, than what the legislative, constituted by the society, have enacted,
into the hands of the executive, not as an arbitrary power depending on his
for if they can give so many instances, out of history, of governments begun
This constrained them to come unto laws
of Europe would have been formerly to an American. all property. society; and the principal use of that power is, to give laws unto all that are
Sect. it is plain, that at least a great part of the land lay in common; that the
The
conservare debuit, in alterius gentis ditionem & potestatem dedidit; hac
by the same he unites his possessions, which were before free, to it also; and
society, prescribing rules to their actions, and giving power of execution,
that monarchy being simple, and most obvious to men, whom neither experience
law, which makes no distinction of persons, by an action that may deserve
ambition and luxury in future ages* would retain and increase the power,
cast off, and article with him, if he will assist them against the Ammonites,
of by any of the workmen, to any part of the work; all which it would be almost
one who has put himself into a state of war with me, i.e. another for any evil he has done, every one may do so: for in that state of
for then mankind will be in a far worse condition than in the state of nature,
right. no one having more than another; there being nothing more evident, than that
Who can help it, if they, who might avoid it, bring themselves into this
not the right of others, he might heap up as much of these durable things as he
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1.F.2. power extends not to the lives or goods, which either their own industry, or
It is not necessary, no, nor so much as convenient, that the
And this is done, where-ever any number of men, in the state of nature, enter
all men, however born, are free, or else there is but one lawful prince, one
master but a temporary power over him, and no greater than what is contained in
clear. estates of the people; by this breach of trust they forfeit the power the
controversies by those laws; and to employ the force of the community at home,
And therefore it is lawful for me to treat him as
nothing was then farther thought upon for the manner of governing, but all
of commonwealths, those who had it commonly used it. that obligation to mutual love amongst men, on which he builds the duties they
with the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in
submit to such a government as he pleases to afford them; but the enquiry is,
But if I might advise them in the case, they
If these papers have that evidence, I flatter
From all which it is evident, that though the things of nature are
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