Second Treatise of goverment Author:John Locke The Second Treatise is one of the most important political treatises ever written and one of the most far-reaching in its influence. In his provocative introduction to this edition, the late eminent political theorist C. B. Macpherson examines Locke's arguments for limited, conditional government, private property and right of revolution and su... more »ggests reasons for the appeal of these arguments in Locke's time and since.« less