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  1 [Title]|        consent of the people, which being the only one of all lawful
  2 1      |             if his heirs had, there being no law of nature nor positive
  3 1      |           line of Adam's posterity, being so long since utterly lost,
  4 4      |            more than another; there being nothing more evident, than
  5 5      |           undoubtedly in other men, being of one and the same nature?
  6 5      |          must look to suffer, there being no reason that others should
  7 6      |           will but consult it, that being all equal and independent,
  8 6      |             or possessions: for men being all the workmanship of one
  9 6      |             another's pleasure: and being furnished with like faculties,
 10 8      |           from injury and violence, being slighted and broken by him.
 11 8      |            and broken by him. Which being a trespass against the whole
 12 11     |         that the magistrate, who by being magistrate hath the common
 13 11     |           the crime, to prevent its being committed again, by the
 14 13     |       necessarily follow from men's being judges in their own cases,
 15 16     |            espouses his quarrel; it being reasonable and just, I should
 16 16     |      fundamental law of nature, man being to be preserved as much
 17 16     |         discovered an enmity to his being, for the same reason that
 18 17     |           state of war with him; it being to be understood as a declaration
 19 17     |            thing else, that freedom being the foundation of all the
 20 20     |             of law, the end whereof being to protect and redress the
 21 25     |           which tells us, that men, being once born, have a right
 22 25     |         mankind in common. But this being supposed, it seems to some
 23 26     |        support and comfort of their being. And tho' all the fruits
 24 26     |            their natural state: yet being given for the use of men,
 25 27     |           makes it his property. It being by him removed from the
 26 27     |          other men: for this labour being the unquestionable property
 27 30     |           her during the chase: for being a beast that is still looked
 28 32     |            chief matter of property being now not the fruits of the
 29 36     |       plough, sow and reap, without being disturbed, upon land he
 30 42     |          industry; the one of these being the food and raiment which
 31 43     |    requisite to this corn, from its being feed to be sown to its being
 32 43     |        being feed to be sown to its being made bread, must all be
 33 44     |        given in common, yet man, by being master of himself, and proprietor
 34 44     |           support or comfort of his being, when invention and arts
 35 50     |          But since gold and silver, being little useful to the life
 36 54     |            to the business in hand, being that equal right, that every
 37 54     |            natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or
 38 56     |            the first instant of his being to provide for his own support
 39 57     |    promulgated to him; and this law being promulgated or made known
 40 57     |           law; and Adam's children, being not presently as soon as
 41 60     |              he is never capable of being a free man, he is never
 42 66     |         whose means he entered into being, and has been made capable
 43 71     |            then, all paternal power being in the prince, the subject
 44 72     |           instances of it elsewhere being rare, and less taken notice
 45 72     |            possession of the father being the expectation and inheritance
 46 73     |    obedience of children: and there being always annexed to the enjoyment
 47 73     |      compact held them; whereas, it being only a necessary condition
 48 73     |            for every man's children being by nature as free as himself,
 49 74(*)  |           to do as Melchizedec, and being kings, to exercise the office
 50 74(*)  |     convenient and behoveful; there being no impossibility in nature
 51 79     |            between male and female, being not barely procreation,
 52 79     |         because the teat of the dam being sufficient to nourish the
 53 79     |         longer: because the dam not being able well to subsist herself,
 54 80     |        other creatures, whose young being able to subsist of themselves,
 55 81     |           voluntary compacts, there being no necessity in the nature
 56 82     |             wills too; it therefore being necessary that the last
 57 82     |            the power of the husband being so far from that of an absolute
 58 83     |            all the ends of marriage being to be obtained under politic
 59 83     |       society put it not in him, it being not at all necessary to
 60 83     |             for themselves; nothing being necessary to any society,
 61 85     |            name we call slaves, who being captives taken in a just
 62 85     |             lost their estates; and being in the state of slavery,
 63 87     |                        Sec. 87. Man being born, as has been proved,
 64 87     |             every particular member being excluded, the community
 65 87     |           the state of nature, each being, where there is no other,
 66 88     |             his own judgments, they being made by himself, or his
 67 90     |           the end of civil society, being to avoid, and remedy those
 68 90     |             follow from every man's being judge in his own case, by
 69 91     |                     Sec. 91. For he being supposed to have all, both
 70 91     |          man can fear from one, who being in the unrestrained state
 71 94(**) |                           Civil law being the act of the whole body
 72 95     |                        Sec. 95. MEN being, as has been said, by nature,
 73 96     |           which acts any community, being only the consent of the
 74 96     |           individuals of it, and it being necessary to that which
 75 100    |       should do so, because all men being born under government, they
 76 103    |           the state of nature, that being met together incorporated
 77 104    |             But to conclude, reason being plain on our side, that
 78 107    |            if we add, that monarchy being simple, and most obvious
 79 108    |        resolutions of peace and war being ordinarily either in the
 80 109    |            their general. And when, being weary of the ill conduct
 81 109    |             those, who after Saul's being solemnly chosen and saluted
 82 110    |          and the fatherly authority being continued on to the elder
 83 112    |           never dreamed of monarchy being lure Divino, which we never
 84 113    |              Sec. 113. That all men being born under government, some
 85 113    |        regal, or any other form; it being demonstration, that if any
 86 116    |          would persuade us, that by being born under any government,
 87 116    |            for his son, when a man, being altogether as free as the
 88 116    |       father's; because that estate being his father's property, he
 89 117    |           makes them members of it, being given separately in their
 90 118    |             nor look on children as being their subjects, by their
 91 118    |          subjects, by their fathers being so. If a subject of England
 92 118    |       warred against a country, for being barely born in it of parents
 93 118    |            upon him by his father's being a subject of this kingdom;
 94 119    |                 Sec. 119. Every man being, as has been shewed, naturally
 95 119    |         naturally free, and nothing being able to put him into subjection
 96 119    |          reaches as far as the very being of any one within the territories
 97 120    | common-wealth, as long as it hath a being. Whoever therefore, from
 98 121    |        public act cuts him off from being any longer a member of it.~
 99 122    |            from all those, who, not being in a state of war, come
100 123    |         invasion of others: for all being kings as much as he, every
101 124    |         rational creatures; yet men being biassed by their interest,
102 125    |             every one in that state being both judge and executioner
103 125    |           of the law of nature, men being partial to themselves, passion
104 127    |             of the state of nature, being but in an ill condition,
105 130    |          thereof shall require: for being now in a new state, wherein
106 131    |       society shall require; yet it being only with an intention in
107 132    |        which is the legislative, it being impossible to conceive that
108 134    |            s entering into society, being the enjoyment of their properties
109 134    |        instrument and means of that being the laws established in
110 134    |         absolutely necessary to its being a law, * the consent of
111 134    |      farther than they do allow; it being ridiculous to imagine one
112 135    |             whether it be always in being, or only by intervals, though
113 135    |      fortunes of the people: for it being but the joint power of every
114 135    |           fundamental law of nature being the preservation of mankind,
115 136    |       judges: for the law of nature being unwritten, and so no where
116 137    |            them when he pleases; he being in a much worse condition,
117 137    |             000 single men; no body being secure, that his will, who
118 137    |           power the government has, being only for the good of the
119 138    |            preservation of property being the end of government, and
120 138    |          lasting assembly always in being, or in one man, as in absolute
121 139    |         whatsoever hands it is put, being, as I have before shewed,
122 139    |      necessary, is not arbitrary by being absolute, but is still limited
123 141    |             any other hands: for it being but a delegated power from
124 141    |           power of the legislative, being derived from the people
125 141    |      positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not
126 142    |            legislative is always in being, or at least where the people
127 143    |     legislative should be always in being, not having always business
128 143    |          which when they have done, being separated again, they are
129 144    |         should be a power always in being, which should see to the
130 147    |       subjects one amongst another, being to direct their actions,
131 149    |    subordinate, yet the legislative being only a fiduciary power to
132 149    |           for the attaining an end, being limited by that end, whenever
133 151    |        legislative is not always in being, and the executive is vested
134 151    |  legislative superior to him, there being no law to be made without
135 151    |             with others; allegiance being nothing but an obedience
136 152    |             we need not speak, they being so multiplied with infinite
137 153    |     legislative should be always in being; but absolutely necessary
138 153    |              that and the executive being both ministerial and subordinate
139 153    |       legislative also in this case being supposed to consist of several
140 153    |             cannot but be always in being, and so will, as supreme,
141 153    |         them: for the supreme power being placed in them by the people,
142 155    |             if the executive power, being possessed of the force of
143 156    |       steady fixed rule: for it not being possible, that the first
144 156    |          prevent the community from being exposed some time or other
145 156    |           the prudence of some, who being present, and acquainted
146 157    |     constitution of the legislative being the original and supreme
147 158    |       inevitably introduced: For it being the interest as well as
148 158    |          the community; prerogative being nothing but a power, in
149 159    |             for the legislators not being able to foresee, and provide
150 159    |           for the end of government being the preservation of all,
151 160    |    lawmaking power is not always in being, and is usually too numerous,
152 162    |            laws: and the governors, being as the fathers of them,
153 163    |           for the end of government being the good of the community,
154 167    |    occasions, shall require: for it being impossible to foresee which
155 168    |       between an executive power in being, with such a prerogative,
156 168    |           they cannot part with, it being out of a man's power so
157 171    |             in the state of nature, being the preservation of all
158 172    |             is destructive to their being.)~
159 174    |      however placed, is so far from being one kind of civil society,
160 179    |             lives of the conquered, being only because they have used
161 180    |         seem a strange doctrine, it being so quite contrary to the
162 180    |        practice of the world; there being nothing more familiar in
163 181    |            that is dangerous to his being.~
164 183    |      forfeit. And my children also, being born of me, had a right
165 183    |           fundamental law of nature being, that all, as much as may
166 184    |            conqueror's land, which, being vanquished, it is impossible
167 184    |            money, the disproportion being more than between five and
168 184    |            inheritance, where there being more land than the inhabitants
169 188    |          the men of that community, being all members of the same
170 193    |            the descendants of these being all freemen, if he grants
171 197    |          have right on his side, it being no usurpation, but where
172 198    |             the people; the anarchy being much alike, to have no form
173 200    |             kingdom; tacitly, as by being a king, and so bound to
174 202    |             his poor neighbour? The being rightfully possessed of
175 202    |             of Adam, is so far from being an excuse, much less a reason,
176 205    |            do in his own person not being likely to happen often,
177 205    |           to extend itself far; nor being able by his single strength
178 205    |             the reach of danger: it being safer for the body, that
179 206    |            for the king's authority being given him only by the law,
180 206    |          where he has no authority, being as void and insignificant,
181 206    |      between the one and the other, being that the magistrate has
182 207    |             other case, my life not being in danger, I may have the
183 208    |         they are sure to perish; it being as impossible for one, or
184 208    |           settled state; the people being as little apt to follow
185 209    |           so easy to be avoided; it being as impossible for a governor,
186 210    |            more hinder himself from being persuaded in his own mind,
187 211    |              for in that case, (not being able to maintain and support
188 211    |      government cannot remain; that being as impossible, as for the
189 212    |           is altered. Civil society being a state of peace, amongst
190 212    |    legislative, as they think best, being in full liberty to resist
191 213    |                      Sec. 213. This being usually brought about by
192 214    |    legislative is changed: for that being in effect the legislative,
193 214    |            introduces new laws, not being thereunto authorized by
194 217    |         people entered into society being to be preserved one intire,
195 218    |        often persuading himself, or being flattered by others, that
196 218    |   legislative by a law, his consent being necessary to give any of
197 219    |            government: for laws not being made for themselves, but
198 220    |            oppression, artifice, or being delivered over to a foreign
199 223    |            be said, that the people being ignorant, and always discontented,
200 225    |     specious forms, are so far from being better, that they are much
201 225    |        anarchy; the inconveniencies being all as great and as near,
202 226    |            hinder it: for rebellion being an opposition, not to persons,
203 226    |       flattery of those about them) being likeliest to do; the properest
204 228    |      doctrine is not to be allowed, being so destructive to the peace
205 230    |         think, a man is capable of, being to answer for all those
206 231    |        thereby the greater, both as being ungrateful for the greater
207 233    |           means be allowed them; it being not agreeable to that law.
208 235    |            resist force with force, being the state of war that levels
209 242    |         appeal to a judge on earth, being properly a state of war,