Sec. 174. He, that shall consider the distinct rise and
extent, and the different ends of these several powers, will
plainly see, that paternal power comes as far short of that of
the magistrate, as despotical exceeds it; and that absolute
dominion, however placed, is so far from being one kind of civil
society, that it is as inconsistent with it, as slavery is with
property. Paternal power is only where minority makes the child
incapable to manage his property; political, where men have
property in their own disposal; and despotical, over such as have
no property at all.
CHAP. XVI.
Of CONQUEST.
Sec. 175. THOUGH governments can originally have no other
rise than that before mentioned, nor polities be founded on any
thing but the consent of the people; yet such have been the
disorders ambition has filled the world with, that in the noise
of war, which makes so great a part of the history of mankind,
this consent is little taken notice of: and therefore many have
mistaken the force of arms for the consent of the people, and
reckon conquest as one of the originals of government. But
conquest is as far from setting up any government, as demolishing
an house is from building a new one in the place. Indeed, it
often makes way for a new frame of a common-wealth, by destroying
the former; but, without the consent of the people, can never
erect a new one.
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