He can have no power over them but by their own consent,
whatever he may drive them to say or do, and he has no lawful
authority, whilst force, and not choice, compels them to submission.
190. Every man is born with a double right. First, a right of
freedom to his person, which no other man has a power over, but the
free disposal of it lies in himself. Secondly, a right before any
other man, to inherit, with his brethren, his father's goods.
191. By the first of these, a man is naturally free from
subjection to any government, though he be born in a place under its
jurisdiction. But if he disclaim the lawful government of the
country he was born in, he must also quit the right that belonged to
him, by the laws of it, and the possessions there descending to him
from his ancestors, if it were a government made by their consent.
192. By the second, the inhabitants of any country, who are
descended and derive a title to their estates from those who are
subdued, and had a government forced upon them, against their free
consents, retain a right to the possession of their ancestors,
though they consent not freely to the government, whose hard
conditions were, by force, imposed on the possessors of that
country.
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