...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'...

...Concerning Toleration, remarked in his Second Treatise of Government: "the great and chief end ... of Men's uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves...Government, is the Preservation of their Property."^ James Madison, who similarly defended religious liberty in Memorial and Remonstrance, observed in Federalist...

...again using the term property in this larger sense, that; The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property.n A second major implication of Locke's account of the origin of civil government is that...

...it, to replace the government, and to promulgate new laws.37 "The great and chief end . . . of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property."39 He thus affirmed the core of the politics of self-preservation while enlarging it to include...

...his second treatise on government, "The great and chief end therefore, of men's uniting themselves into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property" (as cited in Laslett 1965: 395). 2 The entire body of leadership literature is premised on the ability...

...society,"21' and would not have disagreed with Locke's proposition that "the great and chief end. . . of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property."'7 Johnson attached great cultural importance to safeguarding the inheritance of landed estates...

...and Estates, which I call by the general name, Property. The great and chief end, therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property."44 The chief instrument for achieving this end is the system of positive laws: "the first...