...liberties, and possessions. Such a state thereby rightly acquires "political power."8 Locke explains: Political power, then, I take to be a right of making...laws with penalties of death, and consequently all lesser penalties, for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the force of the...

...is not for Locke. Locke begins the Second Treatise by defining what, in essence, political power is: "Political power, then, I take to be a right of making...laws, with penalties of death, and consequently all lesser penalties for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the force of the community...

...Such a state thereby rightly acquires "political power."8 Locke explains: Political power, then, 1 take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently all lesser penalties, for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the force of the...

...making Laws with Penalties of Death, and confequently all ^Penalties, for the.Regulating and Preferring of Property, and of employing the force of the Community, in the Execution of 2. To this purpofe , I think it may not be amifs, to fet down what I take to be Political Power. That...

...right to property is guaranteed by the state; indeed, for Locke, this is the central role of the state: "Political power, then, I take to be a right of making...penalties, for the regulating and preserving of property" (Macpherson 1962, 8). The state does not merely allow for property relations; rather, the protection...

...force. If one accepts John Locke's definition of "political power" as including the right of making laws and "of employing the force of the community in the execution of such laws and in the defense of the commonwealth from foreign injury," then the ELI wholly lacks political power. It is...

...political authority, which is (to abbreviate) "a Right of making Laws with Penalties of Death . . . and of employing the force of the Community, in the Execution of such Laws . . ., and all this only for the Public Good" (p). Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that for Locke political...

...the difference betwixt a ruler of a commonwealth, a father of a family, and a captain of a galley. 3. e power, if she has 1/10 only of the votes allowed to Pa. and penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties for the regulating and preserving of property,...

...power derived by reason in this sense is not at all the "Political power" that Locke took to be the "right of making laws with penalties of death and, consequently, all less penalties...." John Locke, Second Treatise [Ch. I] 4. If the latter was a useful supposition in the face of monarchy...