treatise
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Beginning with an origin story that echoed John Locke’s “Second Treatise of Government,” Paine depicted people originally created free and equal in nature and subsequently forming representative governments to better secure their liberty and happiness.
From Salon • Jan. 10, 2026
In poetry, Diaz was nominated for “Postcolonial Love Poem,” Rick Barot for “The Galleons” and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge for “A Treatise on Stars.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 17, 2020
Spotted in the gift shop, among the tie-dyed T-shirts printed with the words “Old Soul”: a pamphlet titled, “Do I Have To? A Treatise on Reincarnation.”
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2018
This was the motivation of Locke’s Second Treatise of Government, Kant’s Reply to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?, and Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of Inequality: three extraordinary pamphlets that proclaimed the liberation of man.
From Slate • Apr. 7, 2017
"But surely he's not the same Dr. Bright who authored the Treatise on Melancholy!"
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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