...theological end, is stark and, it should be noted, altogether congruent with Weber's understanding: "Political Power then I take to be a Right of making...Penalties of Death, and consequently all less Penalties" (Locke 1988, 268). The hangman's art, on this account, is definitive of the liberal state. As Locke's...

...Having at the start of the work said that the essence of political power is the power of life and death ('political power then I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death' [Sec. 3]), he tries to show that parents do not have the power to kill their children. This may seem...

...the public with the private. Locke then gave a distinctly modern account of the role of the polis: political power, then, I take to be a right of making...community in the execution of such laws and in the defense of the commonwealth from foreign injury; and all this only for the public good.1" Locke, however,...

...Hobbes, Locke too underlines that the political sphere is concerned with the protection of property: "Political power, then, I take to be a right of making...force of the community in the execution of such laws" (Locke 1986, 1 18). Hobbes and Locke certainly did not write only about the political economy as they...

...declares in his second Treatise on Government (1690), 'I take to be the right of making laws, with penalty of death, and consequently all less penalties for...the community in the execution of such laws, and in defence of the commonwealth from foreign injury, and all this only for the public good.' All this follows...

...find a safer description of the end of government than is given , later on : — " Political power I take to be a right of making laws with penalties...consequently all less penalties, for the regulating 1 Cf. Leslie Stephen, English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, vol. ii. p. 138. and preserving of...

...original); John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, ed. Peter Laslett (New York: Mentor, 1965), II: § 3 ("Political Power then I take to be a Right of making Laws"; emphasis in original); The Federalist no. 5 1 , 349 ("The interest of the man must be connected to...

...provide an adequate definition of political power (which he equates with legitimate power), which is the Right of making Laws with Penalties of Death, and...Commonwealth from Foreign Injury, and all this only for the Publick Good, (n, 3) •NOTES TO CHAPTER FIVE BEGIN ON PAGE 180 123 The issue that Locke sets out to...

...John Locke worked out the details of his social contract. Locke begins by defining political power as a right of making laws with penalties of death, and...community, in the execution of such laws, and in the defense of the commonwealth from foreign injury; and all this only for the public good (Locke, l960...

...systematischen Zusammenhang kündigt bereits die eingangs gebotene Definition der politischen Gewalt an: „Political Power then I take to be a Right of making...less Penalties, for the Regulating and Preserving of Property".7 Diese zunächst irritierende Verknüpfung von Macht und Eigentum, die das Spektrum der...