...Locke's middle-class heart, the preservation of property: "The great and chief end, therefore, of men uniting into commonwealths and putting themselves...the state of nature there are many things wanting." Society, paradoxically, is the product of egoism. It is an artificial contrivance to rescue the ego...

...immune und damit grundsätzlich der Abwägung von staatlichen Organe entzogene Rechte begreift.48 46 „The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting...under government, is the preservation ... of their lives, liberties, and estates, which l call by the general name property" (John Locke, Two Treatises...

...the interests of the "haves" from the "have-nots." As John Locke states, "the great and chief end ... of Men's uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property."6 Furthermore, Adam Smith, the founding father of capitalism, asserted that "the necessity...

...respect to the primacy of private ownership.4 Locke believed that "[t]he great and chief end . . . of men's uniting into common-wealths, and putting...themselves under government, is the preservation of their property."5 It was the preservation and protection of private ownership that Locke identified as the...

...national interest. 2 1 John Locke, for example, writes: "The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves...Government, is the Preservation of their Property." Locke, Second Treatise of Government, chap. 9, para. 124. Locke says "property" includes one's "Life,...

...estates" — by "the general name, property," Locke notes that "[t]he great and chief end ... of mens uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property."15 Or, as the Declaration so simply and eloquently concludes: "that to secure these rights,...

...civil association and consent to the social contract. "The great and chief end" he writes, "of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Propertv."21 This doctrine remained dominant in liberal thought of the eighteenth century and was supplemented...

...the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his".. ."The great and chief end therefore, of Men uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of Property" (Powell, 1996, p. 581). The right to own private property and to determine its use is the...

...On a "common standard of right and wrong" The great and chief end therefore, of Men's uniting onto Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government,...there are many things wanting. First, There wants an establish'd, settled, known Law, received and allowed by common consent to be the Standard of Right...

...protection of human beings is not the only thing at stake. "The great and chief end, therefore, of men uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves...which in the state of Nature there are many things wanting."12 In the second article of the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, which...