Second Treatise Of Government
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full text: SECOND TREATISE OF GOVERNMENT by JOHN LOCKE Digitized by Dave Gowan <dgowan@freenet.scri.fsu.edu> John Locke's "Second Treatise of Government" was published in 1690. The complete unabridged text has been republished several times in edited commentaries. This is based on the paperback book, "John Locke Second Treatise of Government", Edited, with an Introduction, By C.B. McPherson, Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis and Cambridge, 1980. None of the McPherson edition is included in the Etext; only the original words contained in the 1690 Locke text is included. The 1690 edition text is free of copyright. This text is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN, posted to Wiretap 1 Jul 94. TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT BY IOHN LOCKE SALUS POPULI SUPREMA LEX ESTO LONDON PRINTED MDCLXXXVIIII REPRINTED, THE SIXTH TIME, BY A. MILLAR, H. WOODFALL, 1. WHISTON AND B. WHITE, 1. RI- VINGTON, L. DAVIS AND C. REYMERS, R. BALD- WIN, HAWES CLARKE AND COLLINS; W. IOHN- STON, W. OWEN, 1. RICHARDSON, S. CROWDER, T. LONGMAN, B. LAW, C. RIVINGTON, E. DILLY, R. WITHY, C. AND R. WARE, S, BAKER, T. PAYNE, A. SHUCKBURGH, 1. HINXMAN MDCCLXIIII TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT. IN THE FORMER THE FALSE PRIN- CIPLES AND FOUNDATION OF SIR ROBERT FILMER AND HIS FOL- LOWERS ARE DETECTED AND OVERTHROWN. THE LATTER IS AN ESSAY CON- CERNING THE TRUE ORIGINAL EXTENT AND END OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT. 1764 EDITOR'S NOTE The present Edition of this Book has not only been collated with the first three Editions, which were published during the Author's Life, but also has the Advantage of his last Corrections and Improvements, from a Copy delivered by him to Mr. Peter Coste, communicated to the Editor, and now lodged in Christ College, Cambridge. PREFACE Reader, thou hast here the beginning and end of a discourse concerning government; what fate has otherwise disposed of the papers that should have filled up the middle, and were more than all the rest, it is not worth while to tell thee. These, which remain, I hope are sufficient to es…