Locke: Community

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„The power that every individual gave the society, when he entered into it, can never revert to the individuals again, as long as the society lasts, but will always remain in the community; because without this there can be no community, no commonwealth, which is contrary to the original agreement: so also when the society hath placed the legislative in any assembly of men, to continue in them and their successors, with direction and authority for providing such successors“. (Sect. 243) #Locke #community

Locke: Political Power

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„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.“ (Sect. 4) #Locke #PoliticalPower

Locke: Every Man has a Property in His Own Person

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„Though the earth, and all inferior creatures, be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person: this no body has any right to but himself.“ (Sect. 27) #Locke #man #property #person

Locke: Power

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„This freedom from absolute, arbitrary power, is so necessary to, and closely joined with a man’s preservation, that he cannot part with it, but by what forfeits his preservation and life together: for a man, not having the power of his own life“. (Sect. 23) #Locke #power