Limitations According to Locke
An important aspect of all social contract arguments is the placement of limits, both on the power of the government and on the level of state tolerance. John Locke wrote of the limitations of government power in the Second Treatise of Government, and of the limits of toleration in his Letter Concerning Toleration. Locke claims that there is a moral limitation on the on the state as well as a moral limitation on tolerance. Man's main purpose for forming commonwealths, according to Locke, is in order to protect property. All laws and regulations of the commonwealth are based on the main principle of preserving property. The state is thus limited in that it cannot take a man's property away from him. If he has consented to the contract necessary to live in the state, his property is thusly protected by laws. The only way a man's property can be taken away is if he breaks his end of the contract and is therefore no longer under contract.
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