Second Treatise of Government
by John Locke
- Length
- 26 mornings, about 2,100 words a reading
About the book
The Second Treatise of Government is a work of political philosophy by the English thinker John Locke. It was published without his name in 1689, as the second part of his Two Treatises of Government, soon after the revolution of 1688 that brought William III to the English throne. The first treatise attacks Sir Robert Filmer, who held that kings inherit absolute power from Adam. This second one sets out Locke’s own account of where lawful government comes from and what it is for. A short preface presents the work as a defence of King William’s title.
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