Reading Locke's Second Treatise of Government, chapter I

Today we are starting John Locke's Second Treatise of Government, reading and reviewing chapter one--which does not have a chapter title.

For our reading for this series of Reading Locke's Second Treatise of Government, we are using (on screen) the Real Books Ltd edition available via. Google Books (2018).

Other editions may be used by those going along with the reading:

Richard Cox's Second Treatise of Government Locke (Croft Clasics/Wiley-Blackwell, 1982).

C. B. Macpherson's John Locke: Second Treatise of Government (Hackett Publishing Company, 1980).

Peter Laslett's Locke: Two Treatise of Government, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thoughts (Cambridge University Press, 1988 [1960].

Lee Ward's Locke Two Treatises of Government (Focus Publishing, 2016).

Ian Shapiro's Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration John Locke (Yale University Press, 2003).

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[gilscott]

Is not the distinction between parental rule and political rule precisely the issue of consent. An infant can not consent and must be ruled by the parent on the basis of love. When the infant grows up he becomes capable of consent and shares in rule and hence becomes a citizen.