...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...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...

...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...government is the preservation of their property. . . . But though men when they enter into society give up the equality, liberty, and executive power...

...69. This modern concept of government receives its paradigmatic expression in Locke's admonition that "the great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting...government, is the preservation of their property." John Locke, Second Treatise of Government (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1980) at 66. 32 Ibid, at 69. 33 Habermas,...

...particular significance to the right of property. The Second Treatise leaves no doubt about its primacy: "The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting...themselves under government, is the preservation of their property."18 Although he used the term property broadly to include life and liberty in the sense that...

...government. For instance, Locke famously asserted that the "great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves...Government, is the Preservation of their Property" (TTG, II, § 1 24, emphasis in original) . We meet with this view as well in the Letter on Toleration:...

...classic study, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, "[t]he great and chief end of men uniting into commonwealths and putting themselves under government is the preservation of their property."8 The wars between England and Holland under the Commonwealth and Charles II are cited by...

...of self-preservation of all its members. Locke states: "The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of theit Property' ' (II:114). 9 It is important to note that Locke's emphasis on property as the end...

...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...

...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...