The First and Second Treatises of Government

The First & Second Treatises of GovernmentBritish writer John Locke is a proponent of limited government and argues that governments have obligations to citizens and can be overthrown under certain circumstances.Two Treatises of Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise attacks patriarchalism in the form of sentence-by-sentence refutation of Robert Filmer's Patriarcha, while the Second Treatise outlines Locke's ideas for a more civilized society based on natural rights and contract theory.