Posted: February 5th, 2015

John Locke's SECOND TREATISE ON CIVIL GOVERNMENT

John Locke's SECOND TREATISE ON CIVIL GOVERNMENT

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THE ONLY SOURCE YOU CAN USE IS JOHN LOCKE’S BOOK:
SECOND TREATISE ON CIVIL GOVERNMENT

You must answer all 19 questions all in the paper. The paper should cite precise passages/pages in John Locke’s: Second Treatise on civil government, upon which their

responses to the questions are based.

There is no hint of Darwin. Locke’s conception of the dawn of man is biblical. His logic is rooted in Christian scripture- I.e. God’s Law
State of nature- Law of nature- reasonable
Law of reason was implanted by God into Adam and was to govern his posterity
REMEMBER: Locke is writing in ca 1690- America is an early colonial development

Labor puts the difference of value on everything in for Locke such as farming, hunting, gathering, and mining. Labor extracts from the natural kingdom for mankind and

establishes proprietary rights.

QUESTIONS:
1. From where does property come?
2. From where does the state of nature come? Private property?
3. Where does the state of nature exist for Locke? What is it?
4. What is the goal of Law?
5. What is Locke’s notion of freedom?
6. What is the cheif end of civil society?
7. What is the origin and end of executive and legislative power?
8. With what school of thought is Locke refuting and arguing?
9. What form of government does Locke favor/espouse?
10. For Locke, by what is government limited?
11. What are the bounds of legislative power?
12. Where does ultimate power/sovereignty reside?
13. Is the executive answerable to the legislative? Why?
14. What is Locke’s correct use of extra-legal prerogative?
15. What is usurpation?
16. What is tyranny?
17. Under what conditions can a government be dissolved?
18. Under what circumstances May the people overthrow their own government?
19. Where does the judiciary belong in Locke’s writing?

EACH OF THESE MUST BE ANSWERED IN THE ESSAY. YOU CANNOT SKIP ANY QUESTION!

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