...Vol. LXXXVIII, King's Bench Division, XVII, 1908, p. l6ot.) The great and chief End therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves...First, There wants an established, settled, known Law, received and allowed by common Consent to be the Standard of right and wrong, and the common Measure...

...his chapter Of the ends of Political Society and Government, he writes : ' the great and chief end of men's uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves...the preservation of their property ; to which in the 1 Book xxvi, ch. xv. State of Nature there are many things wanting.' In one respect Locke goes further...

...in 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...government is the preservation of their property." As the preservation of property is the origin • and end of the state, so it gives the right of revolution...

...Locke, in a famous passage, maintained, that ' The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting int Commonwealths and putting themselves under government is the preservation of their property '.a Humboldt, writingit is true under a government so oppressive that he had great difficulty in finding...

...endowed with what are termed " rights " and " properties.'' " The great and chief end," he said, " of men's uniting into commonwealths and putting themselves...government is the preservation of their property." But was Green not right when he held that a necessary condition which " must be fulfilled in order...

...be endowed with what are termed " rights " and " properties." " The great and chief end," he said, " of men's uniting into commonwealths and putting themselves...government is the preservation of their property." But was Green not right when he held that a necessary condition which " must be fulfilled in order...

...Works of Alexander Hamilton^ Edited by Lodge), Vol. I, p. 8. The great and chief end, therefore, of men uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves...the state of nature there are many things wanting. One of the most lucid and thorough statements of the economic basis of political parties and programs...

...rights which were vested in them by the immutable laws of nature. " The great and chief end of men uniting into commonwealths and putting themselves...government is the preservation of their property." * While the political significance of this development has often been described, the analogous changes...

...Individualistic view of private property, and again lays down the quintessence of Individualism : " The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting...government, is the preservation of their property." He qualifies his theory of a Social Contract, Compact, or Covenant, by pointing out that " men when...

...legal principles. With John Adams he accepted the dictum of Locke that "the great and chief end . . . of men's uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves...government, is the preservation of their property"; and believing that the English Common Law was the securest of all agencies devised to safeguard the...