...endowed with what are termed " rights " and " properties.'' " The great and chief end," he said, " of men's uniting into commonwealths and putting themselves...government is the preservation of their property." But was Green not right when he held that a necessary condition which " must be fulfilled in order...

...be endowed with what are termed " rights " and " properties." " The great and chief end," he said, " of men's uniting into commonwealths and putting themselves...government is the preservation of their property." But was Green not right when he held that a necessary condition which " must be fulfilled in order...

...Works of Alexander Hamilton^ Edited by Lodge), Vol. I, p. 8. The great and chief end, therefore, of men uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves...the state of nature there are many things wanting. One of the most lucid and thorough statements of the economic basis of political parties and programs...

...rights which were vested in them by the immutable laws of nature. " The great and chief end of men uniting into commonwealths and putting themselves...government is the preservation of their property." * While the political significance of this development has often been described, the analogous changes...

...Individualistic view of private property, and again lays down the quintessence of Individualism : " The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting...government, is the preservation of their property." He qualifies his theory of a Social Contract, Compact, or Covenant, by pointing out that " men when...

...legal principles. With John Adams he accepted the dictum of Locke that "the great and chief end . . . of men's uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves...government, is the preservation of their property"; and believing that the English Common Law was the securest of all agencies devised to safeguard the...

...detached from the communal whole are at constant hazards. "The great and chief end, therefore, of men uniting into commonwealths and putting themselves...government, is the preservation of their property." 1 If such was the original purpose for which government was instituted among men, it follows that government...

...political well-being, but an end in itself. " The great and chief end, therefore ", he says, " of men uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property."2 This single sentence shows how far a cry it is from Aristotle to Locke.v Like Aristotle,...

...Pflichten nicht oder nicht richtig erfüllt*. Schon aus dieser kurzen Darstellung ergibt sich, daß "The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting into commonwealths, and puting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property"4. Wie aber ist das Eigentum...

...in the requirements of property owners, so is the end of the state to be sought in the same source. "The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting...government is the preservation of their property." As the preservation of property is the origin and end of the state, so it gives the right of revolution...