...is counted for the only Government in the World, is indeed inconfiftent with Civil Society, and fo can be no Form of Civil Government at all. For the end of Civil Society, being to avoid and remedy thofe inconveniencies of the State of Nature, which neceffarily follow from every Man's being Judge...

...associated, that have no such decisive power to appeal to, there they are still in the state of nature. 90. Hence it is evident that absolute monarchy, -which...the end of civil society being to avoid and remedy those inconveniencies of the state of nature which necessarily follow from every man's being judge...

...of a common consent to invest the legislature with political power. For Locke, absolute monarchy is inconsistent with civil society, and so can be no form of civil government at all. Instead of being the panacea that one perceives in Hobbes, an absolute monarchy in Locke's account...