List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction 3
Pt. 1 Nonconsensual Relations 11
1 The Lockean State of Nature 13
1.1 Locke's State of Nature 13
1.2 The Moral, Social, and Historical Dimensions 23
1.3 The Point of State-of-Nature Stories 33
2 Force and Right 40
2.1 The State of War 40
2.2 How Rights Are Lost 46
2.3 Despotism: Slavery and Absolute Government 48
Pt. 2 Consent and Government 57
3 Political Consent 59
3.1 The Content of Lockean Consent 59
3.2 Consent, Contract, and Trust 68
3.3 The Appeal of Consent Theory 72
4 The Varieties of Consent 80
4.1 Express and Tacit Consent 80
4.2 Majority Consent 90
Pt. 3 The Limits of Society 99
5 Inalienable Rights 101
5.1 The Property of Inalienability 101
5.2 Locke on Inalienability 108
5.3 Locke's Commitments 119
5.4 Toleration 123
5.5 Inalienability and Absolutism 137
6 Dissolution and Resistance 147
6.1 The Revolutionary Stance 147
6.2 The Right of Resistance 155
6.3 The Consequences of Dissolution 167
6.4 The Duty to Resist 178
Pt. 4 Consent and the Edge of Anarchy 193
7 The Critique of Lockean Consent Theory 197
7.1 Hume's Attack 197
7.2 The Meaning of Consent in Locke 202
8 Consent, Obligation, and Anarchy 218
8.1 Consent and Voting 218
8.2 Consent and Residence 225
8.3 Duress, Hard Choices, and Free Choice 232
8.4 Lockean Anarchism 248
Works Cited 271
Index 285

This book completes A. John Simmons's exploration and development of Lockean moral and political philosophy, a project begun in The Lockean Theory of Rights (Princeton paperback edition, 1994). Here Simmons discusses the Lockean view of the nature of, grounds for, and limits on political relations between persons.
Originally published in 1993.
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