Philosophical concept
Limited government and resistance
Government receives fiduciary power ordered to the public good; when it destroys that trust, Locke allows resistance without celebrating every revolt.
- Works
- 1
- Passages
- 19
- Thinkers
- 1
- Traditions
- 1
Understand uses of the concept
Government receives fiduciary power ordered to the public good; when it destroys that trust, Locke allows resistance without celebrating every revolt.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 19 passages across 1 works, including Second Treatise of Government. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
Lexical variants:
Works where the concept is identified
- Second Treatise of GovernmentJohn Locke · 19 passages