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Comment: “The reason why men enter into civil society is the preservation of their property.” (Locke)

  • UPSC 2003
  • Theories of the State

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John Locke's Second Treatise of Government (1689) states that the reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property (§222), the great and chief end of commonwealths (§124). Everything turns on the meaning of "property": read broadly, the sentence founds constitutionalism; read narrowly, it founds the propertied state.

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