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The works of John Locke. v. 5

  
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Of Civil Government Book II Chapter 1 Of Political Power
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Chapter 2 Of the State of Nature
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Chapter 3 Of the State of War
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Chapter 4 Of Slavery
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Chapter 5 Of Property
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Chapter 6 Of Paternal Power
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Chapter 7 Of Political or Civil Society
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Chapter 8 Of the Beginning of Political Societies
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Chapter 10 Of the Forms of a Commonwealth
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Chapter 11 Of the Extent of the Legislative Power
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Chapter 12 The Legislative, Executive, and Federative Power of the Commonwealth
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Chapter 13 Of the Subordination of the Powers of the Commonwealth
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Chapter 14 Of Prerogative
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Chapter 15 Of Paternal, Political and Despotical Power Considered Together
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Chapter 19 Of the Dissolution of Government
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CONTENTS OF THE TWO TREATISES ON GOVERNMENT
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§. 54. Though I have said above (2) "That all men by nature are equal," I cannot be supposed to understand all sorts of "equality." Age or virtue may give men a just precedency. Excellency of parts and merit may place others above the common level. Birth may subject some, and alliance or benefits others, to pay an observance to those to whom Nature, gratitude, or other respects, may have made it due; and yet all this consists with the equality which all men are in respect of jurisdiction or dominion one over another, which was the equality I there spoke of as proper to the business in hand, being that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man.

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