Published in the author's Two treatises of government under title: Essay concerning the true original extent and end of civil government.

Of the state of nature -- Of the state of war -- Of slavery -- Of property -- Of paternal power -- Of political or civil society -- Of the beginning of political societies -- Of the ends of political society and government -- Of the forms of a common-wealth -- Of the extent of the legislative power -- Of the legislative, executive, and federative power of the common-wealth -- Of the subordination of the powers of the common-wealth -- Of prerogative -- Of paternal, political, and despotical power, considered together -- Of conquest -- Of usurpation -- Of tyranny -- Of the dissolution of government.