John Locke's Second Treatise Of Government

Locke presents several key ideas in his Treatise; his notions on the origins of property, usurpations, tyranny, and the dissolution of government provide the key arguments for this work. The chronologically first, Of Property, discusses Locke’s theories on the origins of property. He claims that in nature, what makes something the property of one man as opposed to all mankind is the labor he puts into it. He has right to all he can use without letting withered, and should he chose; he may barter what is left for something that will not perish. Locke believes this to be the origin of money. Once money was introduced, society became necessary for people in order to give their money use. Mankind consented to the use of money, and this gave rise
He utilizes examples from the Assyrian empire and explains what makes a government fair and just. Historically, the Glorious Revolution has routes stemming from the Reformation of the Catholic Church. Following Henry VIII, England was primarily a protestant nation, as Henry VIII had an inclination to pick a new wife due to his lack of ability to make a successor. The Catholic Church wouldn’t allow for a divorce. So, Henry VIII and England left the Catholic religion to start their own. English nobles had a fear that Catholics wished to make the state once again controlled by a Catholic King. Several monarchs passed with relative ease, until King Charles I ascended to the throne, and civil war erupted and the monarchy was disbanded instead for the rule of the Commonwealth under Cromwell. Eleven years later, King Charles II returned to the throne and declared himself a Catholic who would restore England to a Catholic country. The Glorious Revolution came about as the Catholic King James II, brother of Charles II ascended to the throne. The Protestants in the nation decided to no longer allow for this and thus the Glorious Revolution came to fruition. Thus, the context for this work stems from a conflict based around England’s history following the reformation of the Catholic