1689 TwoTreatisesofGovernment

(Locke, 1689) ⇒ John Locke. (1689). “Two Treatises of Government.” for Whitmore and Fenn, and C. Brown.

Subject Headings: Patriarchalism, Natural Rights, Social Contract, Serfdom, Political Treatise.

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It can (typically) be composed of the First Treatise on Government and the Second Treatise on Government.
It can argue against the divine right of kings and for the concept of government as a social contract between rulers and the governed.
It can lay the groundwork for modern democracy.

(Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Treatises_of_Government Retrieved:2020-10-4.
- Two Treatises of Government (or Two Treatises of Government: In the Former, The False Principles, and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer, and His Followers, Are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter Is an Essay Concerning The True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government) is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise attacks patriarchalism in the form of sentence-by-sentence refutation of Robert Filmer's Patriarcha, while the Second Treatise outlines Locke's ideas for a more civilized society based on natural rights and contract theory.
  This publication contrasts former political works by Locke himself. In Two Tracts on Government, written in 1660, Locke defends a very conservative position; however, Locke never published it. In 1669, Locke co-authored the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which endorses aristocracy, slavery and serfdom. ^[1] Some dispute the extent to which the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina portray Locke's own philosophy, vs. that of the Lord proprietors of the colony; the document was a legal document written for and signed and sealed by the eight Lord proprietors to whom Charles II had granted the colony. In this context, Locke was only a paid secretary, writing it much as a lawyer writes a will.

(Fukuyama, 2014a) ⇒ Francis Fukuyama. (2014). “Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy.” Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN:0374227357
- QUOTE: ... the philosopher John Locke, whose Second Treatise on Government enunciated the principle that obedience to rule should rest on the consent of the governed. Locke argued that rights were natural and inhered in human beings qua human beings; governments existed only to protect these rights and could be overturned if they violated them. These principles — no taxation without representation and consent of the governed — would become the rallying cry of the American colonists when they revolted against British authority less than a century later in 1776. Thomas Jefferson incorporated Locke’s ideas of natural rights into the American Declaration of Independence, and the idea of popular sovereignty would become the basis of the Constitution that was ratified in 1789.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
1689 TwoTreatisesofGovernment	John Locke (1632-1704)			Two Treatises of Government						1689