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ENGLISH is the international language of law and commerce. Knowing FRENCH is useful for understanding LEGAL ENGLISH, but FRENCH is not the international language of law and commerce, so we will ignore French speakers who speak to us in the language of a conquered people.

Non.

I understand that you are a proud Québécois, but the people here have nothing but contempt for you because of decades of transfer payments and NONE OF YOU understanding what Quebec sovereignty means. None of you know who Russell Rogers Smith is, and you're too proud and arrogant to teach. Just go away and be Retardier somewhere else.

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Two Treatises of Government

John Locke

1689 · text from The Works of John Locke, 1823

Locke's answer to Robert Filmer's divine right of kings, and his account of the state of nature, property, consent and the limits of civil government.

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John Locke (1632–1704) published the Two Treatises anonymously in 1689. The first tears down Sir Robert Filmer’s claim that kings inherit Adam’s authority. The second asks where lawful power comes from and finds it in the consent of the governed. Its chapter “Of Property” argues that a man owns what he mixes his labour with, and that government exists to protect that property.

This copy is the public-domain text of volume V of the 1823 Works of John Locke, prepared by Rod Hay for the McMaster University Archive of the History of Economic Thought (216 pages).