===CHAPTER XX : OF DOMINION PATERNAL父權, AND DESPOTICAL(磚zhi)

A COMMONWEALTH by acquisition, is that, where the sovereign?

power is acquired by force; and it is acquired by force, when men?

singly, or many together by plurality多數 of voices, for fear of death, or?

bonds監(jiān)禁, do authorize all the actions of that man, or assembly, that?

hath their lives and liberty in his power.?

===CHAPTER XXI ：OF THE LIBERTY OF SUBJECTS★臣民?

★★★ suffice 使?jié)M足

If we take liberty, for an exemption免除 from laws, it is no less同樣?

absurd, for men to demand as they do, that liberty, by which all?

other men may be masters of their lives.

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And yet as absurd as it is, this is it they demand; not knowing that?

the laws are of no power to protect them, without a sword in the hands?

of a man, or men, to cause those laws to be put in execution執(zhí)行.?

As amongst masterless men, there is perpetual不斷的/常發(fā)生的 war, of every?

man against his neighbour; no inheritance, to transmit to the son, nor?

to expect from the father; no propriety of goods, or lands; no security;?

But it is an easy thing, for men to be deceived, by the?

specious華而不實的/徒有其表的 name of liberty; and for want of judgment?

to distinguish, mistake that for their private inheritance遺產/繼承物體,?

and birth-right, which is the right of the public only.?

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And when the same error is confirmed by the authority of men?

in reputation for their writings on this subject, it is?

no wonder if it produce sedition煽凍性的言行, and change of government.?

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we are made to receive our opinions concerning the institution,?

and rights of commonwealths, from Aristotle, Cicero, and other men,?

Greeks and Romans, that living under popular states, derived those?

rights, not from the principles of nature, but transcribed them?

into their books, out of the practice of their own commonwealths,?

which were popular;?

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as the grammarians describe the rules of language, out of the?

practice of the time; or the rules of poetry, out of the poems?

of Homer and Virgil.?

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And because the Athenians were taught, (to keep them from?

desire of changing their government,) that they were freemen, and?

all that lived under monarchy were slaves;?

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therefore Aristotle puts it down in his Politics, In democracy,?

LIBERTY is to be supposed假定: for it is commonly held, that?

no man is FREE in any other government.