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Preface, Chapters 1-2: Of the State of Nature

Chapters 3-4: Of the State of War and Of Slavery

Chapter 5: Of Property

Chapters 6-7: Of Paternal Power and of Political or Civil Society

Chapters 8-9: Of the Beginning of Political Societies, and Of the Ends of Political Society and Government

Chapters 10-11: Of the Forms of a Commonwealth, and Of the extent of the Legislative Power

Chapters 12-13: Of the Legislative, Executive, and Federative Power of the Commonwealth, and Of the Subordination of the Powers of the Commonwealth

Chapters 14-15: Of Prerogative and Of Paternal, Political, and Despotical Power (treated together)

Chapter 16-17: Of Conquest, and Of Usurpation

Chapters 18-19: Of Tyranny, and Of the Dissolution of Government

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