Contents -- Key Text -- 1 Locke's Second Treatise in Context -- i: The life and times of John Locke -- ii: The political and philosophical context of the Second Treatise -- 2 Overview and Key Themes -- i: The Second Treatise in Locke's philosophy -- ii: Key themes -- 3 Reading the Text -- i: Getting started - the problem of absolutism -- From the First Treatise to the Second Treatise -- ii: The State of Nature -- Equality -- Freedom -- The Law of Nature -- Right and duty to punish - Executive power of the Law of Nature -- Natural Rights -- State of Nature, history and realism -- The State of War and slavery -- War -- Slavery -- iii: Private property -- Self-ownership -- Original acquisition -- World ownership and equality -- The invention of money -- Property and colonial acquisition -- iv: Patriarchal power and the family -- The status of children -- The duty of parents and the role of the family -- The obligations of children and parents -- The conjugal or sexual contract -- v: The origins of political society -- The original contract -- The second stage agreement and the role of majorities -- The problem of consent -- vi: The Lockean state -- Legislative power -- Executive power -- Prerogative -- vii: Conquest, tyranny and the dissolution of the state -- Conquest -- Usurpation -- Tyranny, rebellion and resistance -- When to rebel and resist? -- 4 Reception and Influence -- i: Locke's influence in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- ii: History, religion and Locke - contemporary interpretations Locke -- iii: Locke, property and contemporary liberalism -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W.