SECOND+TREATISE+OF+GOVERNMENT

//“The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule. The liberty of man, in society, is to be under no other legislative power, but that established, by consent, in the commonwealth; nor under the dominion of any will, or restraint of any law, but what that legislative shall enact, (…) freedom of men under government is, to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, (…); a liberty to follow my own will in all things, where the rule prescribes not; and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary will of another man (…).”

JOHN LOCKE: SECOND TREATISE OF GOVERNMENT, SECTION 22, 1690.//