John Locke's political theory
10 Março 2020, 12:00 • Adelaide Victória Pereira Grandela Meira Serras
The role of John Locke and Lord Shaftesbury in the agreement which paved the way to the constitutional monarchy.
Analysis of excerpts of Locke's
Second Treatise of Government.
Seminal concepts:
1 . The State of Nature,
2 - The State of War;
3 - The Origins of civil society or commonwealth, or
civitas;
4 - The forging of a compact: its inherent duites and rights,
5- the division of powers and their definition - legislative as the supreme power.