Locke's Second Treatise

12/06/2025 34 min

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Explore Locke's Second Treatise: A foundational text on natural rights, consent of the governed, and limited government. Unpack the state of nature, property theory, and the right to revolution. Essential for understanding liberalism and democracy.Works Cited"Biography: John Locke." American Battlefield Trust. Accessed in provided source material."COMPARISON SUMMARY: HOBBES – LOCKE - ROUSSEAU." Accessed in provided source material.Corbett, P. Scott, Volker Janssen, John M. Lund, Todd Pfannestiel, Paul Vickery, and Sylvie Waskiewicz. "The Glorious Revolution and the English Empire." United States History I, OpenStax College. Accessed in provided source material.Dunn, John. The Political Thought of John Locke: An Historical Account of the Argument of the ‘Two Treatises of Government’. Cambridge University Press, 1969.The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "Two Treatises of Government." Britannica. Accessed in provided source material."English Reaction to English Civil War and Glorious Revolution." Accessed in provided source material."Glorious Revolution." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 19 May 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glorious_Revolution&oldid=1293887583. Accessed [Current Date, e.g., 28 May 2024].Keough, Jessica Catherine. "Thomas Jefferson and John Locke: America’s Co-Founders." Accessed in provided source material.Locke, John. Second Treatise of Government. Edited by Richard H. Cox. Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1982.Locke, John. Second Treatise of Government. Edited by C. B. Macpherson. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1980.Locke, John. Second Treatise of Government. Project Gutenberg, 28 July 2010, www.gutenberg.org/files/7370/7370-h/7370-h.htm.Locke, John. Two Treatises of Government. Edited by Peter Laslett, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 1967.Shea, Matthew. "Hobbes, Locke, and the Social Contract." American Battlefield Trust. Accessed in provided source material.Stolzenberg, Nomi M., and Gideon Yaffe. "Waldron’s Locke and Locke’s Waldron: A Review of Jeremy Waldron’s God, Locke, and Equality." Inquiry, vol. 49, no. 2, Apr. 2006, pp. 186–216."The social contract theories of Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau are just fantasies." Reddit, r/askphilosophy. Accessed in provided source material.Tuckness, Alex. "Locke’s Political Philosophy." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Last substantive revision 6 Oct. 2020. Accessed in provided source material.Walsh, Julie. "Locke: Ethics." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Accessed in provided source material.