Two Treatises of Government
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (725 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B004UDLZTS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Worth the time and the money for anyone who wants to better understand what America was REALLY meant to be" according to TouchStoneMT. While it's tough to slog through the LONG sentences and convoluted writing of a 17th century lawyer, THIS is one of the key sources that the Framers of America's Constitution used for the basis of their thinking.Without John Locke - along with others of the European Enlightenment - the "American Experiment" would likely have never happened.Worth the time and the money for anyone who wants to better understand what America was REALLY meant to be.. Sonny Laskin said Read to Learn about the Provenances of the Concepts and Ideas of Liberty and Rights of the People of our Modern Day Democracies. Good book to learn about how current western systems of government evolved into how it is today from overreaching power of monarchical forms of government over the populace that existed in Western Europe during Locke's time. Locke's concepts of limited government, basic human liberties, private property, consent of the governed and the right to revolutionize against overreaching monarchs formed the basis of revolutions in the 18th & 19th centuries to form our Western civilization's methods and forms of democr. Great product. (This is a review of the recording Timoteo Great product. (This is a review of the recording by Knowledge Products, in its Giants of Political Thought series, part of its Audio Classics series, of John Locke's Two Treatises of Government.) This product explains in a very interesting manner the political context of 17th century Britain, in which Locke's two treatises were written. They were not written purely as a theoretical tract. They were actually written during revolutionary plots in which Locke was participating. He was no armchair political theo
A must-listen for anyone interested in the foundations of contemporary political ideology, Locke's hugely influential work will retain its relevance for generations to come.. In Locke's view, governments' legitimacy is based upon their performance of their proper functions---preservation of the life, liberty, and property rights of their citizens, and protection from those who seek to violate these rights. In The First Treatise of Government, Locke refutes the idea of divine monarchy, while The Second Treatise of Government articulat