Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes Regarding the Texts -- Introduction -- 1. The Condition of Man without Government -- The Law of Nature -- Inconveniences of the State of Nature -- The Rule of Reason -- 2. The Rule of Law -- Individual Consent and Majority Rule -- The Principle of Majority Rule -- The Limits of Consent and Compulsion -- The Meaning and Limits of the Rule of Law -- 3. Prerogative and the Limitsof Legislative Supremacy -- The Need for Prerogative -- Redefining Prerogative -- Beyond Political Society -- Beyond Obligation, Consent, and the Social Compact -- Prerogative and Absolute Monarchy -- Judging the Exercise of Prerogative -- 4. Resistance, Revolution,and the Limits of Politics -- Resistance and the Right of Self-Preservation -- Locke's Doctrine of Revolution -- Diffi culties Regarding Revolution -- Heaven and a Stable Commonwealth -- 5. The Lockean Commonwealth -- An Outlook, Not a Constitution -- Th e People and Popular Philosophy -- 6. Justifying Secular Politics -- Locke and Religious Toleration -- Justifying the Commonwealth -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.