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.