...one that John Locke was classically to restate a generation later in his Two Treatises of Government: "Law in its true notion is not so much the Limitation...direction of a free and intelligent Agent to his proper interests." Locke draws the inference that, when we submit to the direction of such laws, this will...

...mankind." i40 The divine law, "in its true notion, is not so much the limitation ai the direction of ajree and intelligent agent to his proper interest, and...than is for the general good of those under that law" (Second Treatise, §57: \\'orks IV, 370). Cf. MS f ,j, fol. i45, printed in King, t.ife of Locke, vol....

...extent less adequately human. Law is properly, then, not a restraint on freedom but its fulfillment. "For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation...farther than is for the general good of those under the law" (par. 57). It is the intelligent self-direction of those under it and is justified in reference...

...Ibid., 1.8, p. 103; 1. 10. pp. 159-60; III.lp 254; HI. 4, p. 323. 70 As a Lockian, Madison agreed that "Law in its true Notion, is not so much the limitation...free and intelligent Agent to his proper Interest" (Two Treatises of Government , book 2, ch. 6, sec. 57). eval, appealing to the organic unity of the...

...Treatises: "where there is no law there is no freedom." The key is Locke's characterization of law, which is "not so much the Limitation as the direction of...and intelligent Agent to his proper Interest," and thus its end is "not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge Freedom. "I7 By definition,...

...has a Law of Nature to govern it, which obliges everyone." 79 Law, to Locke, is a directive force: "For Law, in its true Notion, is not so much the Limitation...is for the general Good of those under that Law." 80 Out of the premise that the world, especially the world of humankind, is the "workmanship" of God,...

...Preservation, for Locke as for Hobbes, is the primary right, and liberty and property are derived rights. "Law in its true notion, is not so much the limitation...farther than is for the general good of those under the law" (II 57). This description of law does not much correspond to the transcendent natural law...

...therefore to set the problem that gives law its utility. Law directs rational free agents to their own interest "and prescribes no farther than is for the general Good of those under that Law. Could they be happier without it, the Law, as an useless thing would of it self vanish." There is no...

...would seem to be determined by the interests, the pleasures and pains, of mankind. Law, Locke says, is "the direction of a free and intelligent Agent to...than is for the general Good of those under that Law" (2T. 57). "Good and evil . . . are nothing but pleasure or pain, or that which occasions or procures...

...Locke are really not so extremely negative as they have been portrayed. Indeed, Locke asserts that "Law, in its true notion, is not so much the Limitation...free and intelligent Agent to his proper interest" (1964, 347—48), suggesting positive liberty. In this respect Locke may lead the way to a more social...