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No one can read the Second Treatise without perceiving that Locke looked upon the State as a machine which can be built and taken to pieces in very simple fashion.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski interprets Locke's view of the State as a simplistic machine that can be easily constructed or deconstructed.
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