IIOHrcT LOCKE
TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT
BY I O H N L O C K E
SALdS POPULI SUPREMA LEX E S T 0
L O N D O N P R I N T E D M D C L X X X V I I I I
R E P R I N T E D , T H E S I X T H TIME, B Y A. MILLAR, W.
WOODFALL, I. W H I S T O N A N D B. WHITE, I. RI-
VIMGTON, L . D A V I S A N D C.REYMERS, R. BALD-
WIN, HAWES C L A R K E A N D COLLINS; W. IOWN-
STON, W. OWEN, I. RICHARDSON, S, CROWDER,
T. L O N G M A N , B. LAW, C. R I V I N G T O N , E.
DILLY, R. W I T H Y , C. A N D R. W A R E , S. BAKER,
T. P A Y N E , A. S H U C K B U R O H , I, H I N X M A N
M D C C C X I 1 1 1
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The prefent Edition of this Baok has not
only been collated with the firit three Edi-
tions, which were publiihed during the
Author’s Life, but alib has the Advantage of
his I& Correaions and Improvements, from
a Copy delivered b him to Mr. Peter Cofie,
in Chriit College, Cambridge.
communicated to t g e Editor, and now lodged
TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT.
I N T H E F O R M E R T H E FALSE PRIN-
CIPLES A N D F O U N D A T I O N OF S I R
R O B E R T F I L M E R A N D HIS F O G
LOWERS ARE DETECTED AND
0 VER THRO W N.
T H E L A T T E R IS A N ESSAY C O N -
C E R N I N G T H E T R U E O R I G I N A L
E X T E N T A N D E N D OF C I V I L
G O V E R N M E N T .
Reader, thou hait here the beginning an$
end of a difcourfe concerning government;
wbat fate has otherwife d d ofed of the
papers
that kould have filed
P
up tbt
middie, and were more than d l the reff,
it is not worth while to tell thee. Thde,
which remain, I ho e are fufficient to e&-
' prefent King William; to make good his
title, in the confent of the people, which
being the only one of all iawfui governments,
ke has more fully and clearly, than any
prince in ChriJtcndom ; and to juitifj to the
world the people of England, whofe fove of
their juR and natural rights, with their rc-
folution to pderve them, faved the nation
when it was on the very brink of flavery and
ruin. If tkfe papers hav