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Comment: “Whoever therefore out of a State of Nature united into a Commonwealth _must be understood to give up all the Power necessary to the Ends for which they united into Society, to the majority of the Community.” ·(Locke)

  • UPSC 1997
  • Western Political Thought

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The sentence opens §99, in chapter VIII, "Of the Beginning of Political Societies", of John Locke's Second Treatise of Government (1689). It is the hinge between unanimous consent, which creates society, and majority rule, which runs it. As an operating rule for a consent-based polity it is sound; its limits lie in the words "necessary…

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