John Locke: An Essay concerning the true original, extent and end of civil Government (1690)



  1. Chapter 1. Of Political Power
  2. Chapter 2. Of the State of Nature
  3. Chapter 3. Of the State of War
  4. Chapter 4. Of Slavery
  5. Chapter 5. Of Property
  6. Chapter 6. Of Paternal Power
  7. Chapter 7. Of Political or Civil Society
  8. Chapter 8. Of the Beginning of Political Societies
  9. Chapter 9. Of the Ends of Political Society and Government
  10. Chapter 10. Of the Forms of a Commonwealth
  11. Chapter 11. Of the Extent of the Legislative Power
  12. Chapter 12. The Legislative, Executive, and Federative Power of the Commonwealth
  13. Chapter 13. Of the Subordination of the Powers of the Commonwealth
  14. Chapter 14. Of Prerogative
  15. Chapter 15. Of Paternal, Political and Despotical Power
  16. Chapter 16. Of Conquest
  17. Chapter 17. Of Usurpation
  18. Chapter 18. Of Tyranny
  19. Chapter 19. Of the Dissolution of Government
  20. Notes