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Quotation from A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke
“The Commonwealth seems to me to be a Society of Men constituted only for the procuring, preserving, and advancing of their own Civil Interests.”
A Letter Concerning Toleration, Letter, definition of the commonwealth, trans. William Popple
The definition that limits the magistrate's jurisdiction to civil goods.
Citation: "The Commonwealth seems to me to be a Society of Men constituted only for the procuring, preserving, and advancing of their own Civil Interests." — John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration, Letter, definition of the commonwealth, trans. William Popple. (id a-letter-concerning-toleration-q2)
Portrait: Portrait of John Locke, Godfrey Kneller, Public domain.
