Número 22 - 2002
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John Locke: The Division of Powers and the Contemporary Democratic Tradition

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  • Miguel Alejandro García
Miguel Alejandro García
Universidad Panamericana
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v22i1.300

Published 2013-11-28

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García, M. A. (2013). John Locke: The Division of Powers and the Contemporary Democratic Tradition. Tópicos, Revista De Filosofía, 22(1), 9–15. https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v22i1.300
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Abstract

According to John Locke, the state of nature suffers a juridical insufficiency: to be judge in one's own case. The republican system is the solution to such inadequacy. This paper intends to demonstrate that the superiority of the republican system is neither based uponfounded economic nor demographic reasons, but on moral grounded.

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