Locke’s description of the origins of society and government is convincing?

I find his arguments convincing. A civil society can only exist when men agree to form a government. They cannot be forced into swearing fealty or pledging submission; it must be voluntary. Men agree to form a compact and invest power in an authority because they wish their lives and property to be protected by the government. While they are giving up some of their own natural freedom, the authority they create only has the powers the people give it. This bond of trust is severed when the authority transgresses the established laws of the commonwealth, and the people’s consent is no longer assured.