But the ends of matrimony requiring
no such power in the husband, the condition of conjugal society
put it not in him, it being not at all necessary to that state.
Conjugal society could subsist and attain its ends without it;
nay, community of goods, and the power over them, mutual
assistance and maintenance, and other things belonging to
conjugal society, might be varied and regulated by that contract
which unites man and wife in that society, as far as may consist
with procreation and the bringing up of children till they could
shift for themselves; nothing being necessary to any society,
that is not necessary to the ends for which it is made.
Sec. 84. The society betwixt parents and children, and the
distinct rights and powers belonging respectively to them, I have
treated of so largely, in the foregoing chapter, that I shall not
here need to say any thing of it. And I think it is plain, that
it is far different from a politic society.
Sec. 85. Master and servant are names as old as history,
but given to those of far different condition; for a freeman
makes himself a servant to another, by selling him, for a certain
time, the service he undertakes to do, in exchange for wages he
is to receive: and though this commonly puts him into the family
of his master, and under the ordinary discipline thereof; yet it
gives the master but a temporary power over him, and no greater
than what is contained in the contract between them.
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