This is it! The final chapter of Locke’s Second Treatise, “Of the Dissolution of Government.” Here, Locke covers a variety of ways that a government or a society can fail, and tries to explain under what circumstances a people forming a society may toss out their existing government and create a new one.
Locke’s criteria for government legitimacy are quite strict, but he does miss some issues that arose in the few centuries after his death (not that I’m blaming him).
From a voluntaryist or libertarian perspective, the thing in this chapter that deserves the most criticism is Locke’s conception of the criteria for a dissolution of society. As usual, he is far too permanent and his idea of dominion offers very little flexibility.
In Locke’s system, permanent minorities in a society can exist, and Locke offers very little succor to members of those permanent minorities. Locke believes that societies are practically set in stone once they are formed, and members cannot exit a society that has, through generational time-scale shifts, ceased to serve their purposes–at least, not without dissolving the whole society.
I’ll cover this and more in the video, which is available on Odysee, YouTube, and BitChute.
Reference:
Hoppe’s essay on class theory:
https://cdn.mises.org/9_2_5_0.pdf
Intro music edited from a piece by Paul Yudin, courtesy Pixabay:
https://pixabay.com/users/paulyudin-27739282/