Locke essay
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Student Name: Alex Callaghan EC1305063
Course: Access to Humanities
Tutor: John Gordon
Assessment Title: Critically evaluate Locke's theory of limited government
Number of Words 1616
NOTE: The ESSAY should be 1500 words in length.
Student signature - Alex Callaghan
Date - 24/04/2014
Critically evaluate Locke's theory of limited government
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For
in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no
freedom. John Locke
Although John Locke is not the progenitor of social contract theory and is not
by any means the last philosopher to wrestle with this concept, his views on fiduciary
power, majority consent and limited government have been instrumental in western
political thought from the time of the publication of his Two treatises of government to
the present day. Locke...
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