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“It is hard indeed to turn the Lockean doctrine into any kind of unqualified democratic theory.” (Mcpherson) Discuss.

  • UPSC 1996
  • Western Political Thought

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The verdict sums up C. B. Macpherson's reading of John Locke in The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke (1962). Locke's premises of equality, consent and majority rule sound democratic, but their operation is qualified by class: Locke founds constitutionalism for property-owners, not democracy. The charge largely holds, though the premises proved more…

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  • Why Locke Looks Democratic
  • Macpherson's Qualifications
  • The Counter-Readings
  • The Indian Illustration
  • Conclusion
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