Download or read book The Nature and Purpose of Government written by Linda C. Raeder and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nature and Purpose of Government elaborates the Lockean social contract that informed revolutionary thought in the American colonies prior to the War for Independence. It explores in detail the narrative of Locke's Second Treatise of Government and relates it to the American situation in the following century.