{"id":676,"date":"2025-01-07T18:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T01:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=676"},"modified":"2025-01-07T18:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T01:41:09","slug":"lockes-second-treatise-chapters-9-and-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"Locke&#8217;s Second Treatise, Chapters 9 and 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe id=\"odysee-iframe\" style=\"width:100%; aspect-ratio:16 \/ 9;\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/$\/embed\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/locke-ch-9-10:e?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Today we&#8217;re covering two short chapters: &#8220;Of the Ends of Political Society and Government,&#8221; and &#8220;Of the Forms of a Commonwealth.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Both cover fundamental issues of Locke&#8217;s concept of proper government, so I would argue that they should have appeared much earlier in the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Aside from that, they help to clarify a few things that I&#8217;ve been harping on but Locke declined to address specifically until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Of the Ends of Political Society and Government&#8221; lists the proper roles of governments, what freedoms people joining governments must give up, and what the responsibilities of those vested with governmental power are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Of the Forms of a Commonwealth&#8221; clarifies several acceptable forms of Locke&#8217;s conception of government, based on the choices of the majority as to whom, if anyone, legislative power should be delegated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Mentioned article:<br>&#8220;The Myth of the Rule of Law&#8221; by John Hasnas<br><a href=\"http:\/\/ereserve.library.utah.edu\/Annual\/SOC\/3568\/Bench\/myth.pdf\">http:\/\/ereserve.library.utah.edu\/Annual\/SOC\/3568\/Bench\/myth.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This video is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/locke-ch-9-10:e\">Odysee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kKnxgsIKGgs\">YouTube<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/old.bitchute.com\/video\/T2j4KQ3h9fnU\/\">BitChute<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;re covering two short chapters: &#8220;Of the Ends of Political Society and Government,&#8221; and &#8220;Of the Forms of a Commonwealth.&#8221; Both cover fundamental issues of Locke&#8217;s concept of proper government, so I would argue that they should have appeared much earlier in the book. Aside from that, they help to clarify a few things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,4,2],"tags":[235,151,193,237,60,19,85,236,72,199,202],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy","category-political","category-video-link","tag-a-treatise-of-government","tag-classical-liberalism","tag-john-locke","tag-liberalism","tag-libertarian","tag-liberty","tag-philosophy","tag-political-philosophy","tag-politics","tag-study-guide","tag-voluntaryism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/John_Locke-e1732667580896.jpg?fit=727%2C423&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/677"}],"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=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}