Sect. 1. It having been shewn in the foregoing discourse,

A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another

Sect. 16. THE state of war is a state of enmity and destruction: and therefore declaring by word or action, not a passionate and hasty

Psal. cxv. 16. has given the earth to the children of men; given it to mankind in common.

Honour thy father and thy mother, Exod. xx. 12. Whosoever curseth his father or his mother, Lev. xx. 9.

MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another

The great and chief end, therefore, of men’s uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property.

The great and chief end, therefore, of men’s uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property.

THE legislative power is that which has a right to direct how the force of the commonwealth shall be employed for preserving the community and the members of it

THOUGH in a constituted commonwealth, standing upon its own basis, and acting according to its own nature, that is, acting for the preservation of the community

WHERE the legislative and executive power are in distinct hands,there the good of the society requires, that several things should be left to the discretion

The power of the father doth not reach at all to the property of the child, which is only in his own disposing.

Indeed, it often makes way for a new frame of a commonwealth, by destroying the former; but, without the consent of the people, can never erect a new one.

This, so far as it is usurpation, is a change only of persons, but not of the forms and rules of the government