§. 193. But granting that the conqueror, in a just war, has a right to the
estates, as well as power over the persons of the conquered, which, it is
plain, he hath not, nothing of absolute power will follow from hence in the
continuance of the government. Because the descendants of these being all free
men, if he grants them estates and possessions to inhabit his country, without
which it would be worth nothing, whatsoever he grants them they have so far as
it is granted property in; the nature whereof is, that, without a man's own
consent, it cannot be taken from him.
