...Concerning Toleration, remarked in his Second Treatise of Government: "the great and chief end ... of Men's uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves...Government, is the Preservation of their Property."^ James Madison, who similarly defended religious liberty in Memorial and Remonstrance, observed in Federalist...

...it, to replace the government, and to promulgate new laws.37 "The great and chief end . . . of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property."39 He thus affirmed the core of the politics of self-preservation while enlarging it to include...

...the people and responsible to them. Locke's dictum that "The great and chief end therefore, of Men uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property"56 became the political gospel of America's founding fathers. They enshrined Locke's work...

...society,"21' and would not have disagreed with Locke's proposition that "the great and chief end. . . of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property."'7 Johnson attached great cultural importance to safeguarding the inheritance of landed estates...

...his second treatise on government, "The great and chief end therefore, of men's uniting themselves into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property" (as cited in Laslett 1965: 395). 2 The entire body of leadership literature is premised on the ability...

...and Estates, which I call by the general name, Property. The great and chief end, therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property."44 The chief instrument for achieving this end is the system of positive laws: "the first...

...again using the term property in this larger sense, that; The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property.n A second major implication of Locke's account of the origin of civil government is that...

...(God-given) property rights of individuals; rights which existed prior to the formation of political society: 'The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting...government, is the preservation of their property/ When, in extreme circumstances, governments failed to uphold life and property, the people have the...

...or precepts of political practice. DH N VI. LOCKE'S THEORY OF PROPERTY.1 " THE great and chief end of men's uniting into commonwealths and putting themselves...government is the preservation of their property." " This opinion of Locke may to some readers appear to express, with an air of unintended satire, the...

...16, 190. « T., 7, 77. • T.. 9, 124. • T.. 9, 127. According to Locke, 'The great and chief end of men's uniting into commonwealths and putting themselves under government is the preservation of their property'.1 But this assertion is misinterpreted if we take the word 'property' in the ordinary restricted...