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Locke’s two Treatises of Government1 were first published in 1689 but were only admitted by Locke to be his own work in a codicil to his will. This secrecy resulted in very inadequate revisions for later editions and it was only with the sixth edition in 1764 that a text approximating to Locke’s intentions became available. Mr P. Laslett has traced the complex history of the work and has provided a definitive text, including a collation with earlier editions.
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P. Laslett (ed.), John Locke: Two Treatises of Government, 1960
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Mabbott, J.D. (1973). The Two Treatises. In: John Locke. Philosophers in Perspective. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00229-0_14
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