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Thursday, September 03, 2009

Locke and the State of Nature

John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, Book II, Chapter II, section 4

"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."


Accessed from http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/763 on 2009-09-03