§. 2. To this purpose, I think it may not be amiss to set down what I take to
be political power. That the power of a magistrate over a subject may be
distinguished from that of a father over his children, a master over his
servant, a husband over his wife, and a lord over his slave. All which distinct
powers happening sometimes together in the same man, if he be considered under
these different relations, it may help us to distinguish these powers one from
another, and show the difference betwixt a ruler of a commonwealth, a father of
a family, and a captain of a galley.
