Second Treatise of Government, Chapters 15 19
Briefly answer the following questions in your own words (unless directed differently). Please put answers underneath each question, try your best to keep the formatting of the paper in-line with the format of these questions. If you need more pages let me know, and if you can’t find the source I can provide it.
Chapter 15
1. Chapter 15 discusses three kinds of power (once again). For each kind of power, explain i) what it is properly based or founded on, ii) what the proper point or purpose of the power is, and iii) what its scope and limits are.
a. Paternal Power is
i. Based on
ii. For the purpose of
iii. Has the following scope and limits
b. Political Power is
i. Based on
ii. For the purpose of
iii. Has the following scope and limits
c. Despotical Power is
i. Based on
ii. For the purpose of
iii. Has the following scope and limits
Chapter 16
2. Can political power be based on conquest?
3. If one is the conqueror in a just war, what are the three limits of ones power?
4. Why dont promises made under coercion bind a person (186)?
5. What are the two natural rights Locke says one is born with (190)?
Chapter 17
6. How does Locke define usurpation, and, how does usurpation relate to conquest?
Chapter 18
7. What is tyranny, and, how does it differ from usurpation?
8. How does Locke answer the objection that his doctrinethat it is legitimate to use force to oppose illegitimate powerwill inevitably lead to constant attacks on the government?
Chapter 19
9. What is the difference between the dissolution of society and the dissolution of government?
10. Explain how the following might lead to a dissolution of government:
a. Alteration of the Legislative
b. Non-Performance of the Executive
11. Locke makes several replies to the objection that his theory promotes frequent rebellion. Very briefly explain two of these replies.
12. If there is a dispute between the government and the people, who shall be the judge of the dispute, and why?
13. When the government forfeits its power, are individual citizens released from all obligations?
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