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Title: Two Treatises of Government
Author: John Locke
Release Date: January, 2005 [EBook #7370] [This file was first posted on April 22, 2003]
Edition: 10
Language: English
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SECOND TREATISE OF GOVERNMENT by JOHN LOCKE
Digitized by Dave Gowan <dgowan@tfn.net>. John Locke's "Second Treatise of Government" was published in 1690. The complete unabridged text has been republished several times in edited commentaries. This text is recovered entire from the paperback book, "John Locke Second Treatise of Government", Edited, with an Introduction, By C.B. McPherson, Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis and Cambridge, 1980. None of the McPherson edition is included in the Etext below; only the original words contained in the 1690 Locke text is included. The 1690 edition text is free of copyright. ____________________________________________________________________
TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT
BY IOHN LOCKE
SALUS POPULI SUPREMA LEX ESTO
LONDON PRINTED MDCLXXXVIII