POL SCI 6C Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Merchant Prince, Absolute Monarchy, Civil Society
2 May 2017
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Locke second treatise of government: state of nature. An executive power enforces the law: the state has a judicial, legislative, and executive branch. The legislative branch is the most important because it determines the laws of the civil society: the people of the state have the right to dissolve the government if it stops (cid:449)o(cid:396)ki(cid:374)g solel(cid:455) i(cid:374) the peoples" (cid:271)est i(cid:374)te(cid:396)est. The go(cid:448)e(cid:396)nment exists only to serve the best interest of the people: the state of nature is a state of equality in which no one has power over another. This liberty to do whatever one wants does not mean that one can abuse another. Parental power ends when a child is old enough (21), political power is built on different foundations: of political or civil society, conjugal society first society between man and woman. This is separate from political society, and the master and mistress have power over everyone in the household.
