lasts, but will always remain in the community; because without this there can be no community, no commonwealth, which is contrary to the original agreement: so also when the society hath placed the legislative in any assembly of men, to continue in them and their successors, with direction and authority for providing such successors, the legislative can never revert to the people whilst that government lasts; because, having provided a legislative with power to continue for ever, they have given up their political power to the legislative, and cannot resume it. But if they have set limits to the duration of their legislative, and made this supreme power in any person, or assembly, only temporary; or else, when by the miscarriages of those in authority it is forfeited; upon the forfeiture, or at the determination of the time set, it reverts to the society, and the people have a right to act as supreme, and continue the legislative in themselves; or erect a new form, or under the old form place it in new hands, as they think good.

II. Of paternal and regal power

III. Of Adam's title to sovereignty, by creation

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- 212

- 215

- 222

227

· 249

IV. Of Adam's title to sovereignty, by donation, Gen. i. 28.
V. Of Adam's title to sovereignty, by the subjection of Eve 244
VI. Of Adam's title to sovereignty, by fatherhood
VII. Of fatherhood and property considered together as foun-
tains of sovereignty

- 267

VIII. Of the conveyance of Adam's sovereign monarchical power 273
IX. Of monarchy, by inheritance from Adam
X. Of the heir to Adam's monarchical power
XI. Who heir?

275
- 290
- 292

a

Chap.

I. The introduction

II. Of the state of nature

III. Of the state of war

IV. Of slavery

V. Of property

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VI. Of paternal power

BOOK II.

- 383

- 394

- 411

- 415

- 416

424

VII. Of political or civil society

VIII. Of the beginning of political societies

IX. Of the ends of political society and government

X. Of the forms of a commonwealth

XI. Of the extent of the legislative power

XII. Of the legislative, executive, and federative power of the
commonwealth

XIII. Of the subordination of the powers of the commonwealth 426
XIV. Of prerogative

XV. Of paternal, political, and despotical power, considered
together

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INDEX

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FIFTH VOLUM E.