{"id":682,"date":"2025-01-30T00:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T07:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=682"},"modified":"2025-01-30T00:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T07:18:06","slug":"lockes-second-treatise-chapter-14-analysis-and-critique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=682","title":{"rendered":"Locke&#8217;s Second Treatise, Chapter 14, Analysis and Critique"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe id=\"odysee-iframe\" style=\"width:100%; aspect-ratio:16 \/ 9;\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/$\/embed\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/locke-ch-14:3?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Chapter 14 of the Second Treatise is titled &#8220;On Prerogative,&#8221; and is perhaps the most dangerous concept in Locke&#8217;s idea of government, especially from a libertarian or voluntaryist perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">According to Locke, prerogative is the ability of the executive to promote the public good without a rule. However, the notion of the executive having powers not strictly limited where the law is &#8220;silent&#8221; is a dangerous notion, prone to all sorts of bad incentives, which even Locke admits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Furthermore, we get to see an interesting application of prerogative and how the American founders seem to have actually improved on Locke&#8217;s thought, in the notion of eminent domain. It sounds crazy, especially from our voluntaryist perspective, but I explain in detail in the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This video is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/locke-ch-14:3\">Odysee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PmEPCnHorUo\">YouTube<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/old.bitchute.com\/video\/S1wtzRIubnsd\/\">BitChute<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Intro music adapted from a royalty-free piece by Clavier Music, courtesy of Pixabay.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/clavier-music-16027823\/\">https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/clavier-music-16027823\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 14 of the Second Treatise is titled &#8220;On Prerogative,&#8221; and is perhaps the most dangerous concept in Locke&#8217;s idea of government, especially from a libertarian or voluntaryist perspective. According to Locke, prerogative is the ability of the executive to promote the public good without a rule. However, the notion of the executive having powers [&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":[235,151,86,193,237,60,19,85,236,72,199,202],"class_list":["post-682","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-freedom","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\/682","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=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/683"}],"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=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}