The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property; to which in the state of nature there are many things wanting. THE WORKS OF JOHN LOCKE - Page 412by John Locke - 1801Full view - About this book
| John Gascoigne - History - 2002 - 256 pages
...Locke famously put it, the 'great and chief end ... of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting of themselves under Government, is the Preservation of...which in the state of Nature there are many things wanting'.18 The parallels between the infant Australia and the United States were ones on which the... | |
| Ross Harrison - History - 2003 - 292 pages
...estates, which I call by the general name property' [Sec. 123]. Or, more succincdy, 'the chief and great end therefore of men's uniting into commonwealths...government is the preservation of their property' [Sec. 124]. It is clear from the first of these remarks that Locke, at least sometimes, uses 'property'... | |
| Bradley C. S. Watson - Law - 2002 - 240 pages
...Concerning Toleration, remarked in his Second Treatise of Government: "the great and chief end ... of Men's uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves...Government, is the Preservation of their Property."^ James Madison, who similarly defended religious liberty in Memorial and Remonstrance, observed in Federalist... | |
| Tudor Jones - Political Science - 2002 - 244 pages
...again using the term property in this larger sense, that; The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property.n A second major implication of Locke's account of the origin of civil government is that... | |
| Nancy Lipton Rosenblum, Nancy L. Rosenblum, Robert C. Post - Philosophy - 2002 - 422 pages
...and Estates, which I call by the general name, Property. The great and chief end, therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property."44 The chief instrument for achieving this end is the system of positive laws: "the first... | |
| Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 238 pages
...society,"21' and would not have disagreed with Locke's proposition that "the great and chief end. . . of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property."'7 Johnson attached great cultural importance to safeguarding the inheritance of landed estates... | |
| Richard R. Ellsworth - Business & Economics - 2002 - 423 pages
...the people and responsible to them. Locke's dictum that "The great and chief end therefore, of Men uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property"56 became the political gospel of America's founding fathers. They enshrined Locke's work... | |
| Richard A. Matthew - Political Science - 2002 - 220 pages
...it, to replace the government, and to promulgate new laws.37 "The great and chief end . . . of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property."39 He thus affirmed the core of the politics of self-preservation while enlarging it to include... | |
| Stephen P. Osborne - Business & Economics - 2002 - 336 pages
...his second treatise on government, "The great and chief end therefore, of men's uniting themselves into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property" (as cited in Laslett 1965: 395). 2 The entire body of leadership literature is premised on the ability... | |
| Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - History - 2003 - 494 pages
...(God-given) property rights of individuals; rights which existed prior to the formation of political society: 'The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting...government, is the preservation of their property/ When, in extreme circumstances, governments failed to uphold life and property, the people have the... | |
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