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55. In fact the theory of a state of nature governed by a law of nature, as preceding civil society, must be untrue either to the conception of law or to that of nature

56. Locke differs from Hobbes (1) in distinguishing the 'state of nature' from the 'state of war'

57. He implies (more consistently than Hobbes) that the 'state of nature' is one in which the 'law of nature' is observed

58. (2) He limits the supreme power in the state by the legislature, which holds its functions in trust from the community

59. And this distinction between the supreme community and the supreme executive enables him to distinguish between dissolution of the political society and dissolution of the government, which Hobbes had confused

60. He invests the community with the right of resuming the powers which they have delegated, and thus justifies revolution when it is the act of the whole community

61. The difficulty is to determine when it is the act of the whole community, and on this Locke's theory gives no help