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Article: The Limits of Lockean Rights in Property.
- Article from:
- American Political Science Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 1997
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John W. Danford, Loyola University Chicago
John Locke's account of the origins and foundation of private property has been the focus of a surprising amount of attention over the past two decades and more. This is partly no doubt because "Of Property," the celebrated fifth chapter of the Second Treatise, is as confusing as it is important to Locke's account of the basis of civil society. But the spate of recent attention is probably explained by the fact that so many academic writers have grave doubts about the legitimacy of the institution of private property itself.
Gopal Sreenivasan has given us a succinct and lucid account of some of the central issues. The ...