Godwin's works, including works of political philosophy (including An Enquiry concerning Political Justice) and several novels (including Caleb Williams and St. Leon), advocate religious dissent, the rule of reason, and personal freedom bordering on political anarchy.
Political Justice emphasizes the relationship between systems of government and ethical philosophy??? In it he argues for the ultimate perfectibility of mankind, which he believed would result when reason assumed its proper place. Existing political systems, however, failed to produce happiness, equity, or freedom: in his insistence on the corrupting power of government, Godwin went beyond Rousseau's ??? Power??? Property was to be held in common and made available to the neediest???