The great art of government
Subtitle: Locke's use of consent
By: Peter Josephson.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lawrence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Locke, John, -- 1632-1704 -- Contributions in political science; Political science -- Philosophy; Representative government and representation; Democracy
Description: "That government should be rooted in the consent of the governed may be the most accepted aspect of John Locke's liberal theory. Yet to this day Lockeans have reached no consensus over what constitutes consent or whether Locke even intended consent to be a standard of legitimacy. Peter Josephson now takes a close look at Locke's writings on both consent and the art of governance to show how each informs the other.

Moving beyond previous scholarship, he gives us a Locke as much concerned with the effective functioning of government as with the roots of its moral legitimacy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-357) and index.
Table of contents: title: The nature of man and the foundations of consent; title: The defects of the law of nature; title: Collectivism, individualism, and consent; title: The founding and political society; title: Representation and the legislative power; title: The great art of government.