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 a lord over his lave. All which ditinct powers happening ometimes together in the ame man, if he be conidered under thee different relations, it may help us to ditinguih thee powers one from another, and hew the difference betwixt a ruler of a common-wealth, a father of a family, and a captain of a galley.

§. 3. Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death, and conequently all les penalties, for the regulating and preerving of property, and of employing the force of the community, in the execution of uch laws, and in the defence of the common-wealth from foreign injury; and all this only for the public good.

O undertand political power right, and derive it from its original, we mut conider, what tate all men are naturally in, and that is, a tate of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dipoe of their poeions and perons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without aking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.

A tate alo of equality, wherein all the power and juridiction is reciprocal, no one having