Two Treatises . There is a thoughtful and politically alert analysis of Locke’s understanding of the conditions for governmental legitimacy in Peter Josephson’s,

The Great Art of Government: Locke’s Use of Consent (University of Kansas Press, 2002): compare Kirstie McClure,

Judging Rights: Lockean Politics and the Limits of Consent (Cornell University Press, 1996). For the pressing issue of how far Locke succeeded or failed in doing justice to the formidably different practical predicaments and interests of women, see especially Carole Pateman,

The Sexual Contract (Polity, 1988), and A. John Simmons, 'The Conjugal and the Political in Locke’,

Locke Studies,

1 (2001), responding to Ruth Sample’s, 'Locke on

The Locke Newsletter,

31, 2000.

The writings of the main target of the

Two Treatises , Sir Robert Filmer, are available in convenient modern editions by Peter Laslett (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1949) and Johann P. Somerville (Cambridge University Press, 1991). The distinctiveness of Filmer’s views is best brought out in James Daly,

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