New Thread, New Picture. PG here 1.) Page 29/81 pdf John Lock english.hku.hk/staff/kjohnson/PDF/LockeJohnSECONDTREATISE1690.pdf
Tuesday, March 25, 2025, Chapter 7 "Of Political or Civil Society," "Second Treatise of Government" by John Locke, pages 40 and 41, Day 43, sections 90 and 91 start with the words "civil society." The mere understanding of civil society was found in yesterday's reading in Section 89. All men are in "a state of nature." They join society to protect their property. Mind, soul, body, labor, family, land, possessions from those who would rob them and enslave them.
{monarchy: Central Banking, Central Federal Government, one source of government made by the hands of man is not a civil government but a dictatorship. It is not a civil government at all.} No one has agreed to it or given their consent.
PG here New Thread, New Picture. 2.) Sect. 90. Hence it is evident, that absolute monarchy, which by some men is counted the only government in the world, is indeed inconsistent with civil society, and so can be no form of civil government at all: for the end of civil society, being to avoid, and remedy those inconveniences of the state of nature, which necessarily follow from every man's being judge in his own case, by setting up a
known authority, to which every one of that society may appeal upon any injury received, or controversy that may arise, and which every one of the society ought to obey;* where-ever any persons
are, who have not such an authority to appeal to, for the decision of any difference between them, there those persons are still in the state of nature; and so is every absolute prince, in respect of those who are under his dominion.
PG here New Thread, New Picture. 3.) (*The public power of all society is above every soul contained in the same society; and the principal use of that power is, to give laws unto all that are under it, which laws in such cases we must obey. Unless there be reason shewed which may necessarily enforce that the law of reason, or of God, doth enjoin the contrary, Hook. Eccl. Pol. l. i. sect. 16.)
Sect. 91. For he being supposed to have all, both legislative and executive power in himself alone,there is no judge to be found, no appeal lies open to any one, who may fairly, and indifferently, and with authority decide, and from whose decision relief and redress may be expected of any injury or inconviency, that may be suffered from the prince, or by his order: so that such a man, however intitled,Czar, or Grand Seignior, or how you please, is as much in the state of nature, with all under his dominion, as he is with therest of mankind: