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51. Sigmund,
Natural Law in Political Thought
, p. 86.
52. Skinner,
Foundations of Modern Political Thought
, vol. 2, p. 153, points out that the Levellers and the Anabaptists assumed that the rights of property holders could be abrogated without any affront to natural justice. Locke's way out of this dilemma was to take the interpretation of the jurists rather than that of the theologians, arguing directly that the right to hold property is a law of nature, not a privilege granted by positive law.
53. Locke himself was aware of this. In a letter to Rev. Richard King of August 25, 1703, he compares his
Two Treatises
with Aristotle's
Politics
.
54. Rapaczynski,
Nature and Politics
, p. 117.
55. Tuck,
Natural Rights Theory
, p. 15.
56. Tully,
Discourse on Property
, p. 176.
57. John Locke,
The Educational Writings
, ed. James Axtell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968), pp. 21315.

 

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58. Rapaczynski,
Nature and Politics
, p. 279.
59. Rommen,
Natural Law
, p. 89.
60. Von Gierke,
Natural Law and the Theory of Society
, p. 113.
61. Tuck,
Natural Rights Theories
, pp. 175, 177.
62. Macpherson,
Political Theory of Possessive Individualism
, p. 262 passim.
63. John Dunn,
The Political Thought of John Locke
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969; reprint, 1975), p. xi.
64. Dunn,
Political Thought of John Locke
, p. 263. Dunn draws a sober conclusion on p. 267: "We have, it seems, come to accept in the broadest of terms the politics of Locke but, while doing so, we have firmly discarded the reasons which alone made them acceptable even to Locke. It is hard to believe that this combination can be quite what we need today."
65. Skinner,
Foundations of Modern Political Thought
, vol. 2, p. 174.
66. Troeltsch, "Ideas of Natural Law and Humanity," p. 208.
67. James Gordon Clapp, "John Locke,"
Encyclopedia of Philosophy
, ed. P. Edwards, vol. 4 (New York: Macmillan, 1967), p. 502.
68. Abrams,
John Locke
, p. 78.
69. See the discussion of Babington,
Rule of Law in Britain
, pp. 15758.

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