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    -BIO: John Locke (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
    -ENTRY: John Locke: English philosopher (Graham A.J. Rogers, Mar 5, 2020, Encyclopaedia Britannica)
    -WIKIPEDIA: John Locke
    -ENTRY: John Locke (1632—1704) (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
    -John Locke Foundation
    -WIKIPEDIA: Two Treatises of Government
    -ENTRY: John Locke 1632-1704 (The Library of Economics and Liberty)
    -ETEXT: John Locke, Two Treatises (1689): The Enhanced Edition of John Locke's Two Treatises of Civil Government (1689, 1764) (Online Library of Liberty)
    -ETEXT: Second Treatise of Government by John Locke (Project Gutenberg)
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    -STUDY GUIDE: Locke's Second Treatise on Civil Government (Spark Notes)
    -ENTRY: Locke’s Political Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
    -John Locke, 1632 - 1704 (Great Thinkers)
    -ENTRY: John Locke (Robb A. McDaniel, The First Amendment Encyclopedia)
    -BIBLIOGRAPHY: The John Locke Manuscripts is a guide to the manuscript papers of John Locke
    -ESSAY: The Reverend Elisha Williams, the “celebrated Mr. Lock,” and the Letter Concerning Toleration in America (Joshua T. Waechter, Fall 2023, Pietas) [PDF]
    -ESSAY: The relationship between religion and rights in the writings of John Locke (Brian Watkyns, 1989)
    -ESSAY: What’s Wrong with Social Contract Theory: Although social contract theory is a prominent feature of the American founding, it is both unsound and harmful to a proper understanding of politics. This fact presents a challenge to any form of conservatism that is based upon protecting and promoting the principles of the American founding. (NATHAN SCHLUETER, 10/20/22, Public Discourse)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: ‘America’s Philosopher’ Review: The Key to John Locke: The political thinker who mattered most to a revolutionary generation spoke in a language they had no difficulty understanding (Barton Swaim, Aug. 5, 2022, WSJ)
    -The (Protestant) American Revolution : On Gary Steward’s Justifying Revolution (Thomas TacomaJuly 13, 2022, American Reformer)
    -ESSAY: Who Read John Locke? Words and Acts in the American Revolution: (OSCAR HANDLIN and LILIAN HANDLIN, Autumn 1989, The American Scholar)
    -PODCAST: Great Books: Two Treatises of Government, by John Locke (Hosted by John J. Miller, October 15, 2019, National Review)
    -PODCAST: Peter Berkowitz on Locke, Liberty, and Liberalism (Russ Roberts, Dec 10 2018, EconTalk)
    -VIDEO PODCAST: Mark Blitz on Ancient and Modern Political Philosophy: A discussion of political thinkers including Plato, Aristotle, John Locke, and Nietzsche (Conversations with Bill Kristol, Aug 17, 2014)
    -VIDEO LECTURE: John Locke's Political Philosophy (Professor Charles Anderson, Jul 21, 2018, Political, Economic and Social Thought, University of Wisconsin)
    -VIDEO LECTURE: 15. Constitutional Government: Locke's Second Treatise (1-5) (Introduction to Political Philosophy, Sep 21, 2008, Yale University)
    -ESSAY: John Locke: From Absolutism to Toleration (Robert P. Kraynak, March 1980, The American Political Science Review)
    -ESSAY: John Locke: Natural Rights to Life, Liberty, and Property: Locke's Writings Did Much to Inspire the American Revolution (JIM POWELL, AUGUST 01, 1996, the freeman)
    -ESSAY: TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT: JOHN LOCKE, CAROLINA, AND THE TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT (DAVID ARMITAGE, October 2004, Harvard.edu)
    -ESSAY: John Locke and the Second Treatise on Government (Sawyer A. Theriault, 2009, Inquiries Journal)
    -ESSAY: The Uses of America in Locke's Second Treatise of Government (Herman Lebovics, Oct. - Dec., 1986, Journal of the History of Ideas)
    -ESSAY: The Law of Nature in Locke's Second Treatise: Is Locke a Hobbesian? (Patrick Coby, 05 August 2009, Review of Politics)
    -ESSAY: Locke’s American Legacy (David Lewis Schaefer, 2/04/21, Law & Liberty)
    -ESSAY: Taking Locke Seriously: Of Government, Property Rights and Climate Change (ED DOLAN, DECEMBER 10, 2020, Niskanen)
    -ESSAY: John Locke: The Justification of Private Property (George H. Smith, 10/19/15, libertarianism.org)
    -ARTICLE: Unknown text by John Locke reveals roots of 'foundational democratic ideas': Newly discovered ‘Reasons for tolerateing Papists equally with others’ shows the Enlightenment thinker expressing unexpected social liberalism (Alison Flood, 3 Sep 2019, The Guardian)
    -ESSAY: John Locke – A Philosophical Founder of America (Wallbuilders)
    -ESSAY: Social Contracts, Human Flourishing, and the Economy: Our current economic debates underscore the case for an approach to political economy that rejects social contract theory and embraces a robust conception of human flourishing. (Samuel Gregg, June 22, 2011, Public Discourse)
    -ESSAY: John Locke and the Inadequacies of Social Contract Theory: John Locke is an illustration of how social contract theory distorts sound political reasoning. (Samuel Gregg, July 29, 2011, Public Discourse)
    -ESSAY: Conservative Liberalism, Liberal Despotism: Part 1: An oddity about our current debates over liberalism and America is that both sides view the American Founding, and thus America, as fundamentally influenced by classical liberal ideology. They only disagree over whether classical liberalism is good or bad. But the historical record shows that liberal ideology was one influence among many, not that it was the definitive one. (Nathanael Blake, March 8, 2020, Public Discourse)
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    -ESSAY: Human Nature and the Constitution (David A. Eisenberg, Winter 2023, National Affairs)
    -ESSAY: Locke, Metaphysics, and the Challenge of America: John Locke is a deep cultural well from which we still can draw good water. (Greg Forster, September 20, 2011, Public Discourse)
    -ESSAY: A New Lockean Manuscript and the Limits of Religious Toleration: The content of the new manuscript of Locke’s is not a view of toleration that we lost along the way and should hurry to recover for these troubled times. The text is actually a sobering reminder of the limits of a Lockean approach to religious toleration, which is based on a minimalistic understanding of religion. (Manfred Svensson, October 7, 2019, Public Discourse)
    -ESSAY: Unlocking Locke (David T. Koyzis, 3 . 10 . 10, First Things)
    -ESSAY: The Real John Locke—and Why He Matters (Donald Devine, May 21, 2014, Law & Liberty)
    -ESSAY: A Tale of Two Democracies: Republicans and Democrats Between Aristotle and Locke (Joseph Knippenberg, November 5, 2018, Law & Liberty)
    -ESSAY: Metaphysics as Politics?: D.C. Schindler on Locke and Liberalism (Paul Seaton, 6/05/18, Law & Liberty)
    -ESSAY: What John Locke Really Said (John P. East, May 30th, 2016, Imaginative Conservative)
    -ESSAY: John Locke and Conservatism: Indispensable or Antithetical? (Gregory Collin, June 28th, 2013, Imaginative Conservative)
    -ESSAY: Understanding Voegelin’s Critique of Locke (Donald Devine, November 30th, 2018, Imaginative Conservative)
    -ESSAY: John Locke: The Harmony of Liberty & Virtue (Donald Devine, February 15th, 2017, Imaginative Conservative)
    -ESSAY: John Locke and the Dark Side of Toleration (Bruce Frohnen, October 9th, 2014, Imaginative Conservative)
    -ESSAY: John Locke on “The Reasonableness of Christianity” (Nayeli Riano, March 14th, 2019, Imaginative Conservative)
    -ESSAY: Locke, Darwin, and America’s Future (Peter Augustine Lawler, winter 2011, New Atlantis)
    -ESSAY: Was John Locke Really a Liberal?: He opposed wars of conquest, but not on dubious moral grounds. (Michael Lind, 4/23/16, National Interest)
    -ESSAY: The War over Liberal Democracy: The Catholic medieval project, for all its achievements, ultimately failed to uphold one of the most transformative ideas of the Jewish and Christian traditions: the freedom and dignity of every human soul. (Joseph Loconte, 2/11/19, National Interest)
    -ESSAY: The Need for a Revival of Lockean Liberalism (Joseph Loconte, September 11, 2019, National Review)
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    -REVIEW: of Two Treatises of Government, by John Locke — A Critical Edition, with an Introduction and Apparatus Criticus by Peter Laslett (K. J. Scott, Political Science)
    -REVIEW: of John Locke, Second Treatise of Government. Edited with an introduction by THOMAS P. PEARDON (Carl J. Schneider, Political Research Quarterly)
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    -REVIEW: The 100 best nonfiction books: No 90 – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke (1689) (Robert McCrum, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW: of Stuart, Matthew, Locke's Metaphysics (Michael Jacovides, The Philosophical Review)
    -REVIEW: of John Locke and Modern Life by Lee Ward (Glenn Moots, Claremont Review of Books)
    -REVIEW: of The Foundations of Natural Morality: On the Compatibility of Natural Rights and the Natural Law by S. Adam Seagrave (Christopher O. Tollefsen, Public Discourse)
    -REVIEW: of Launching Liberalism: On Lockean Political Philosophy by Michael P. Zuckert (Thomas G. West, Claremont Review of Books)
    -REVIEW: of Yechiel J. M. Leiter, John Locke's Political Philosophy and the Hebrew Bible (Victor Nuovo, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews)
    -REVIEW: of John Locke; Philosopher of the Revolution by Mary Elaine Swanson (Don Crow, The Counsel of Chalcedon)
    -REVIEW: of John Locke’s Political Philosophy and the Hebrew Bible by Yechiel J.M. Leiter (David Conway, Law & Liberty)
    -REVIEW: of Locke: A Biography By Roger Woolhouse (Aeon J. Skoble, Independent Review)
    -REVIEW: of Patriarcha: The Complete Political Works by Sir Robert Filmer (Jerry Salyer, IMaginative Conservative)
    -REVIEW: of John Locke’s Political Philosophy and the Hebrew Bible by Yechiel J.M. Leiter (David Conway, Law & Liberty)
    -LECTURE: Political Education (Michael Oakeshott, An Inaugural Lecture Delivered at the London School of Economics and Political Science on March 6, 1951_

[C]onsider Locke’s Second Treatise of Civil Government, read in America and in France in the eighteenth century as a statement of abstract principles to be put into practice, regarded there as a preface to political activity. But so far from being a preface, it has all the marks of a postscript, and its power to guide derived from its roots in actual political experience. Here, set down in abstract terms, is a brief conspectus of the manner in which Englishmen were accustomed to go about the business of attending to their arrangements-a brilliant abridgment of the political habits of Englishmen.