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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.

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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

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VII. Of fatherhood and property considered together as foun-

tains of sovereignty

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

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