Second Treatise of Government

John Locke, C. B. Macpherson

Cambridge University Press, Mar 1, 1980 - Political science - 148 pages

The Second Treatise is one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the most far-reaching in its influence.


In his provocative 15-page introduction to this edition, the late eminent political theorist C. B. Macpherson examines Locke's arguments for limited, conditional government, private property, and right of revolution and suggests reasons for the appeal of these arguments in Locke's time and since.

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Bibliographic information

• Title: Second Treatise of Government; The Library of liberal arts, no. 21. Political science
• Authors: John Locke, C. B. Macpherson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1980
• ISBN: 1603844961, 9781603844963
• Length: 148 pages