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SECOND TREATISE OF
GOVERNMENT
by JOHN LOCKE
Digitized by Dave Gowan. John Locke’s “Second
Treatise of Government” was published in 1690. The
complete unabridged text has been republished several
times in edited commentaries. This text is recovered
entire from 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 below; only
the original words contained in the 1690 Locke text is
included. The 1690 edition text is free of copyright.
TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT
BY IOHN LOCKE
SALUS POPULI SUPREMA LEX ESTO
LONDON PRINTED MDCLXXXVIII
REPRINTED, THE SIXTH TIME, BY A. MILLAR, H. WOODFALL, 1.
WHISTON AND B. WHITE, 1. RIVINGTON, L. DAVIS AND C.
REYMERS, R. BALDWIN, HAWES CLARKE AND COLLINS; W.
IOHNSTON, 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
MDCCLXIII
TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT. IN THE FORMER THE FALSE
PRINCIPLES AND FOUNDATION OF SIR ROBERT FILMER AND HIS
FOLLOWERS ARE DETECTED AND OVERTHROWN. THE LATTER IS
AN ESSAY CONCERNING 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.
Contents
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
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