...general Name, Property. Locke therefore concluded that, "The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves...Government is the Preservation of their Property." The crucial Lockean conception of property is more comprehensive than the common contemporary notion....

...and estates, which 1 call the general name— property. The great and chief end, therefore, of men uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves...government, is the preservation of their property." See John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government, Chapter 9 (1690), Similarly, Rousseau states that...

...The nation had listened to Locke, who had proclaimed that "[t]he great and chief end of men united into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property." 23 The leading public men were landowners and merchants armed with the support of bankers determined...

...estates, which I call by the general name—property. 124. The great and chief end, therefore, of men uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves...the state of Nature there are many things wanting. Firstly, there wants an established, settled, known law, received and allowed by common consent to...

...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,...

...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...

...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...