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Comment: “The great and chief aim of men’s uniting, into a Commonwealth and putting themselves under Government is the preservation of property.” (Locke)

  • UPSC 2008, 1999
  • Western Political Thought

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The sentence opens §124 of John Locke's Second Treatise of Government (1689), where the text reads great and chief end. It is a teleological theory of the state: government is defined and judged by the purpose for which men create it. Its strength is the logic of limited, purpose-bound authority; its weakness, an end too…

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