§. 95. MEN being, as has been said, by nature all free, equal, and
independent, no one can be put out of this estate and subjected to the
political power of another without his own consent, which is done by agreeing
with other men, to join and unite into a community for their comfortable, safe,
and peaceable living, one amongst another, in a secure enjoyment of their
properties, and a greater security against any that are not of it. This any
number of men may do, because it injures not the freedom of the rest; they are
left, as they were, in the liberty of the state of Nature. When any number of
men have so consented to make one community or government, they are thereby
presently incorporated, and make one body politic, wherein the majority have a
right to act and conclude the rest.