§. 113. "That all men being born under government, some or other, it is
impossible any of them should ever be free and at liberty to unite together and
begin a new one, or ever be able to erect a lawful government." If this
argument be good, I ask, How came so many lawful monarchies into the world? For
if anybody, upon this supposition, can show me any one man, in any age of the
world, free to begin a lawful monarchy, I will be bound to show him ten other
free men at liberty, at the same time, to unite and begin a new government
under a regal or any other form. It being demonstration that if any one born
under the dominion of another may be so free as to have a right to command
others in a new and distinct empire, every one that is born under the dominion
of another may be so free too, and may become a ruler or subject of a distinct
separate government. And so, by this their own principle, either all men,
however born, are free, or else there is but one lawful prince, one lawful
government in the world; and then they have nothing to do but barely to show us
which that is, which, when they have done, I doubt not but all mankind will
easily agree to pay obedience to him.
