1690

CONCERNING CIVIL GOVERNMENT, SECOND ESSAY

AN ESSAY CONCERNING THE TRUE ORIGINAL EXTENT AND

END OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT

by John Locke

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I Of Political Power

CHAPTER II Of the State of Nature

CHAPTER III Of the State of War

CHAPTER IV Of Slavery

CHAPTER V Of Property

CHAPTER VI Of Paternal Power

CHAPTER VII Of Political or Civil Society

CHAPTER VIII Of the Beginning of Political Societies

CHAPTER IX Of the Ends of Political Society and Government

CHAPTER X Of the Forms of a Commonwealth

CHAPTER XI Of the Extent of the Legislative Power

CHAPTER XII The Legislative, Executive, and Federative Power of the Commonwealth

CHAPTER XIII Of the Subordination of the Powers of the Commonwealth

CHAPTER XIV Of Prerogative

CHAPTER XV Of Paternal, Political and Despotical Power, Considered Together

CHAPTER XVI Of Conquest

CHAPTER XVII Of Usurpation

CHAPTER XIII Of Tyranny

CHAPTER XIX Of the Dissolution of Government