John Locke. The Second Treatise on Government. 1690.
First published in 1690.
TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT.
BY JOHN 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 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.
Text source: John Locke. The Second Treatise on Government. First 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 are included. The 1690 edition text is free of copyright.
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