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. CONTENTS OF THE TWO TREATISES ON GOVERNMENT. Chap. I. The introduction BOOK I. II. Of paternal and regal power III. Of Adam's title to sovereignty, by creation Page - 212 - 215 - 222 IV. Of Adam's title to sovereignty, by donation, Gen. i. 28. 227 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 VIII. Of the conveyance of Adam's sovereign monarchical power 273 IX. Of monarchy, by inheritance from Adam VII. Of political or civil society VIII. Of the beginning of political societies IX. Of the ends of political society and government XIII. Of the subordination of the powers of the commonwealth 426 - XV. Of paternal, political, and despotical power, considered |