{"id":765,"date":"2025-05-14T14:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T20:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?page_id=765"},"modified":"2025-06-20T11:55:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T17:55:04","slug":"lockes-second-treatise-study-guide-and-critique","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?page_id=765","title":{"rendered":"Locke&#8217;s Second Treatise, Study Guide and Critique"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">Locke&#8217;s famous Second Treatise covers how he thinks proper government <em>should<\/em> operate. I focused on this treatise because the First Treatise is all about how no king and nobody can prove he is truly the direct heir of rule from Adam, and is a lot less relevant in today&#8217;s political debate climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Grab a copy <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/twotreatisesofgo0000lock_z7g8\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=663\">Chapters 1 and 2<\/a>: Locke&#8217;s introduction and the State of Nature<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=666\">Chapters 3 and 4<\/a>: The State of War and Slavery<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=668\">Chapter 5<\/a>: On Property<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=670\">Chapter 6<\/a>: Of Paternal Power<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=672\">Chapter 7<\/a>: Of Political or Civil Society<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=674\">Chapter 8<\/a>: Of the Beginning of Political Societies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=676\">Chapters 9 and 10<\/a>: Of the Ends of Political Society and Government and Of the Forms of a Commonwealth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=678\">Chapter 11<\/a>: The proper limits of government<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=680\">Chapters 12 and 13<\/a>: The executive and federative powers, their goals, and their limitations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=682\">Chapter 14<\/a>: On prerogative<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=684\">Chapter 15<\/a>: The three types of power and how they differ<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=688\">Chapter 16<\/a>: Of conquest<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=694\">Chapters 17 and 18<\/a>: Usurpation and tyranny<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=696\">Chapter 19<\/a>: Of the dissolution of government<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=699\">Final thoughts and conclusions<\/a>: Where Locke succeeds and where he fails<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Locke&#8217;s famous Second Treatise covers how he thinks proper government should operate. I focused on this treatise because the First Treatise is all about how no king and nobody can prove he is truly the direct heir of rule from Adam, and is a lot less relevant in today&#8217;s political debate climate. Grab a copy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":664,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-765","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/765\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}