...inconvenience by uniting themselves into a commonwealth or political society, and by setting up 'ajudge on Earth, with Authority to determine all the Controversies,...is the Legislative, or Magistrates appointed by it' (II. vii. 89, p. 343). Locke repeatedly stresses that political society is distinguished from the state...

...which is, as I have before showed it, the perfect state of nature" (Second Treatise, 52, sec. 87). This "puts men out of a state of nature into that of a commonwealth" (Second Treatise, 53, sec. 89). "For the end of civil society, being to avoid and remedy those inconveniences...

...the individual members of that society. And once such a political organization is established this puts men out of a state of nature into that of a commonwealth,...is the legislative or magistrates appointed by it. And wherever there are any number of men, however associated, that have no such decisive power to appeal...

...life, liberty and estate— is to be preserved in conformity with natural law, and where there exists a "Judge on Earth, with Authority to determine all...that may happen to any Member of the Commonwealth" (n, 89). THE "BEGINNING AND TND OF -POLITICAL SOCIETY Describing the origins of political societies...

...§ 87. 72 Second Treatise, § 3 . 7' „And this puts Men out of a State of Nature into that of an Commonwealth, by setting up a Judge on Earth, with Authority to determine all the Controversies, ...; which Judge ist the Legislative..." Second Treatise, § 89. Es darf daraus jedoch nicht geschlossen...

...while the criterion of the existence of a 'political society' was the existence of a common judge: 'a judge on earth, with authority to determine all...the legislative, or magistrates appointed by it'. 14 The power of this legislative, moreover, was established 'only with an intention in every [= each]...

...m-refpeftof thofe who ate under his Bamimam* 91. For affiftanee (as to his own Decrees) is due. And this puts Men out of a State of Nature into that of a Commonwealth, by fetting up a Judge on Earth, with Authority to determine all the Controverfies, and redrefs the Injuries...

...shall require, to the execution -whereof his own assistance (as to his own decrees) is due. And this puts men out of a state of nature into that of a commonwealth,...is the legislative, or magistrates appointed by it. And wherever there are any number of men, however associated, that have no such decisive power to appeal...

...shall require; to the execution whereof, his own assistance (as to his own degrees) is due. And this end the execution of it. Some deviations therefore... ꁀ 3 . Q [ "E 2007 (Hackett Publ magistrate appointed by it. And wherever there are any number of men, however associated, that have...

...society to make one people, one body politic, under one supreme government', says Locke, this action 'puts men out of a state of nature into that of a common-wealth.'30 The new social and political relations in Locke's commonwealth are at the heart of...