...IX OF THE ENDS OF POLITICAL SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT 124. The great and chief end, therefore, of men uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves...the state of Nature there are many things wanting. Firstly, there wants an established, settled, known law, received and allowed by common consent to...

...Possessions, and Persons as they think fit." Similarly, for Locke, "the great and chief end, therefore, of men uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves...government, is the preservation of their property" (Locke, Two Treatises of Government, 118, 180). 23. Thus Locke's Two Treatises: "The great end of men's...

...political society which secures ownership - secures the land: 'The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves...Government, is the Preservation of their Property' (Locke 1965: 395 para. 124 - his emphasis). This blessed state was constitutive ly contrasted with...

...should be noted, was no throwaway phrase. Indeed, according to Locke, "The great and chief end of Men uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves...Government, is the Preservation of their Property" (Locke 1960, 368-69; emphasis in original). It is axiomatic, from a classical liberal perspective,...

...constantly exposed to the invasion of others, so it can only be guaranteed by the contract of government. "The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting...property, to which in the state of nature there are many thing wanting. "First, there wants an established, settled, known law, received and allowed by common...

...inspired these labors. NOTES 1. Compare John Locke's very similar statement in his "Second Treatise'': "The great and chief end therefore, of Men's uniting...Government, is the Preservation of their Property." John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, ed. Peter Laslett (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,...

...mutual Preservation of their Lives, Liberties and Estates, which I call by the general name, Property. The great and chief end therefore, of Men's uniting...themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property."62 By individual and common consent, people divest themselves of their absolute natural liberty...

...the requirements of property owners, so is the end of the state to be sought in the same source. " The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting...themselves under government is the preservation of their property."12 As the preservation of property is the origin and end of the state, so it gives the right...

...Locke famously put it, the 'great and chief end ... of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting of themselves under Government, is the Preservation of...which in the state of Nature there are many things wanting'.18 The parallels between the infant Australia and the United States were ones on which the...

...estates, which I call by the general name property' [Sec. 123]. Or, more succincdy, 'the chief and great end therefore of men's uniting into commonwealths...government is the preservation of their property' [Sec. 124]. It is clear from the first of these remarks that Locke, at least sometimes, uses 'property'...