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Often appears with: public good · public finance and debt · property, inheritance, and title · preservation of property · penalties of death · crime and punishment
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Locke defines political power as a magistrate’s right to make laws with penalties (including death) to regulate and preserve property and defend the commonwealth, only for the public good.
OF THE STATE OF NATURE. Sect. 4. TO understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man. A state also of equality…