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Book Title: Second Treatise of Government
Book Author: John Locke
Publishing Company: BY A. MILLAR, H. WOODFALL
Place of Publication: London Year ofPublication:1690
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CHAP. IV.Of Slavery.Sec. 22CHAP. IV.Of Slavery.Sec. 24CHAP. V.Of Property.Sec. 25.CHAP. X.Of the Forms of aCommon-wealth.Sec. 132. | THE natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under thewill or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule. Thisis the perfect condition of slavery, which is nothing else, but the state of war continued,between a lawful conqueror and a captive:Men, being once born, have a right to theirpreservation, andconsequently to meat and drink, and such other things as nature affords for theirsubsistence.THE majority having, as has been shewed, upon men's first uniting into society, the whole powerof the communitynaturally in them, may employ all that power in making laws for the community from timeto time, and executing those laws by officers of their own appointing; and then the form of the government isaperfect democracy: or else may put the power of making laws into the hands of a few select men, and theirheirs or successors; and then it is an oligarchy: or else into the hands of one man, and then it isa monarchy:if to him and his heirs, it is an hereditary monarchy: |
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LiberalismNineteenth-century liberalism was the ideology that asserted that the task of government was to promote individual liberty....
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