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... and so lay a foundation for perpetual disorder and mischief, tumult, sedition and rebellion (things that the followers of that hypothesis so loudly cry out against)...

 

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... must of necessity find out another rise of government, another original of political power, and another way of designing and knowing the persons that have it, that what Sir Robert Filmer hath taught us.

 

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Sec.2. To this purpose, I think it may not be amiss, to set down what I take to be political power;

 

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that the power of a magistrate over a subject may be distinguished from that of a father over his children...

 

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... a master over his servant ...

 

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... a husband over his wife ...

 

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(hissing cat mine)

 

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... and a lord over his slave.

 

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(Yeah, that one is hiss-worthy, too.

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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 wealth, a father of a family, and a captain of a galley.

 

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Sec.3. Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties, for the regulating and preserving of property...

 

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... and of employing the force of the community, in the execution of such laws, and in the defence of the common-wealth from foreign injury;

 

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and all this only for the public good.

 

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Oh John Locke, you so craaaaazy!