Upon reading Locke’s Second Treatise Of Government it becomes apparent that he was

an advocate of the limitation of political power. Locke proposes a separation of power within

government as a means to satisfy this before the idea emerges in Montesquieu’s writings (Gough

1973). Locke believed that governmental power should be vested in more than one institution in

order to safeguard against one institution having too great a degree of power. Locke’s writing is a work against absolutism, which he saw as a sure road to tyranny. This is an issue which forms a firm basis of Locke’s theory and will be discussed below.

Locke has taken the two principle rights man enjoys in the State of Nature, the right to interpret the Law of Nature for ourselves and the right to punish anyone who goes against it, and has given them two independent institutions (Ashcraft 1987). These institutions, while both designed to be working towards the common good, have come into being in Locke’s system in such a way that society is protected against abuse of this system. Locke’s assumption of mans “frailty” leads him to include these insurance’s agai

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