He is attempting, that is to say, a separation between Church and State not merely in that Scoto-Jesuit sense which aimed at ecclesiastical independence, but in order to assert the pre-eminence of the State as such.
Laski explains Locke's attempt to separate Church and State in a way that emphasizes the primacy of the State.
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