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Constituent Force: Creation and Destruction in Locke’s Political Thought

Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy

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Abstract

Political Theory, Ahead of Print.
This article makes the case for Locke as an early and important theorist of constituent power. His politics rests on the distinction between a constituent people or “Society” capable of generating its own laws and the constituted order or “Government.” ...