Political Science · Western Political Thought
Who among the following defined civil power as 'the right of making laws with penalties… for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the force of the community in the execution of such laws… all this only for the public good'?
ARousseau
BKarl Marx
CJohn Locke ✓ Correct
DJ.S. Mill
Correct answer: (C) John Locke — John Locke gave this definition of civil or political power, so the answer is John Locke.
Explanation
★John Locke gave this definition of civil or political power, so the answer is John Locke.
★It opens his Second Treatise of Government and frames the purpose of the state.
★Political power is the right to make laws backed by penalties.
★Its central aims are the regulation and preservation of property.
★It may use the force of the community only to execute these laws.
★And all of this must serve one end alone, the public good.
★This defines a limited, trust-based government, the core of Locke's liberalism.
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