Second Treatise of Government : An Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent and End of Civil Government

from Kade

Smaller than The Prince in length of pages but more broad than The Leviathan in terms of affirmative discussion of political structure. Whereas The Leviathan spends most of its time on the state of nature, and The Prince is antiquated in monarchy, Locke disposes with the state of nature quickly, ...

from vegetarian

The social contract theorist: when NEW people ENTER the situation without full disclosure and consent, are they part of a social contract?

from drbrand

We are born Free, as we are born Rational. An inspiring (if somewhat unsound) foundational text in political philosophy.

from IAmChrysanthemum

A very important work but one that I mostly disagree with (chapter 5, I'm looking at you).

from stillatim

Yikes- I'd thought that, since so many liberals (or what in America are called, bizarrely enough, conservatives) take this as a kind of ur-text, it'd be, you know, good. My bad. I should have realized that quality of argument is totally superfluous in political matters. Whatever he meant to say, ...