Notas sobre o direito de resistência no segundo tratado sobre o governo de John Locke

Present article attempts to examine chapter XIX of the Second Treatise of Government, in which Locke concentrates his arguments in favor of the Right of Resistance. In this way, we highlight some fundamental points for demonstrating that the emergence of this Right comes from the exercise of Power without authority by ruler, a condition that implies the dissolution of government - with consequent loss of confidence on the part of the governed - so that such authority returns to subjects and they can, by means of a revolution, retain the supreme power to act according to their will or to reinstate the previous legislature, or even to institute a new one.