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... consider what state all men are naturally in , and that is a state . of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit , within the bounds of the law of nature , without asking ...
... consider what state all men are naturally in , and that is a state . of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit , within the bounds of the law of nature , without asking ...
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... consider natural reason , which tells us that men being once born have a right to their preserva- tion , and consequently to meat and drink and such other things as nature affords for their subsistence ; or Revela- tion , which gives us ...
... consider natural reason , which tells us that men being once born have a right to their preserva- tion , and consequently to meat and drink and such other things as nature affords for their subsistence ; or Revela- tion , which gives us ...
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... considering the plenty of natural provisions there was a long time in the world , and the few spenders , and to how small a part of that provision the industry of one man could extend itself , and engross it to the prejudice of others ...
... considering the plenty of natural provisions there was a long time in the world , and the few spenders , and to how small a part of that provision the industry of one man could extend itself , and engross it to the prejudice of others ...
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... consider what the difference is between an acre of land planted with tobacco or sugar , sown with wheat or barley , and an acre of the same land lying in common without any husbandry upon it , and he will find that the improvement of ...
... consider what the difference is between an acre of land planted with tobacco or sugar , sown with wheat or barley , and an acre of the same land lying in common without any husbandry upon it , and he will find that the improvement of ...
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... consider the different ends , ties , and bounds of each of these . 78. Conjugal society is made by a voluntary compact between man and woman , and though it consists chiefly in such a communion and right in one another's bodies as is ...
... consider the different ends , ties , and bounds of each of these . 78. Conjugal society is made by a voluntary compact between man and woman , and though it consists chiefly in such a communion and right in one another's bodies as is ...
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Page 10 - To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.
Page 11 - ... for men being all the workmanship of one omnipotent and infinitely wise Maker; all the servants of one sovereign Master, sent into the world by His order and about His business; they are His property, whose workmanship they are made to last during His, not one another's pleasure.
Page 89 - And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of any body, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject...
Page 89 - ... there can be but one supreme power, which is the legislative, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate, yet the legislative being only a fiduciary power to act for certain ends, there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative, when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them.
Page 11 - The state of Nature has a law of Nature to govern it, which obliges every one, and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions...
Page 95 - For the legislators not being able to foresee and provide by laws for all that may be useful to the community, the executor of the laws, having the power in his hands, has by the common law of Nature a right to make use of it for the good of the society, in many cases where the municipal law has given no direction, till the legislative can conveniently be assembled to provide for it...
Page 60 - For, when any number of men have, by the consent of every individual, made a community, they have thereby made that community one body, with a power to act as one body, which is only by the will and determination of the majority.
Page 55 - ... in all cases that exclude him not from appealing for protection to the law established by it ; and thus all private judgment of every particular member being excluded, the community comes to be umjnref "by settled standing rules, indifferent and the same to all parties...
Page 86 - And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage, and thereby come to have a distinct interest from the rest of the community, contrary to the end of society and government...
Page 128 - ... by this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put into their hands for quite contrary ends, and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty...