Locke, John / 2008-06-20 00:00:00
1690
CONCERNING CIVIL GOVERNMENT, SECOND ESSAY
AN ESSAY CONCERNING THE TRUE ORIGINAL EXTENT AND
END OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT
by John Locke
Chapter I
Of Political Power
1. It having been shown in the foregoing discourse:*
* An Essay Concerning Certain False Principles.
Firstly. That Adam had not, either by natural right of fatherhood or
by positive donation from God, any such authority over his children,
nor dominion over the world, as is pretended.
Secondly. That if he had, his heirs yet had no right to it.
Thirdly. That if his heirs had, there being no law of Nature nor
positive law of God that determines which is the right heir in all
cases that may arise, the right of succession, and consequently of
bearing rule, could not have been certainly determined.
Fourthly. That if even that had been determined, yet the knowledge
of which is the eldest line of Adam's posterity being so long since
utterly lost, that in the races of mankind and families of the
world, there remains not to one above another the least pretence to be
the eldest house, and to have the right of inheritance.
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