...Such a state thereby rightly acquires "political power."8 Locke explains: Political power, then, 1 take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently all lesser penalties, for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing...

...under these different relations, it may help us to distinguish these powers one from another, and shew the difference betwixt a ruler of a commonwealth,...right of making laws -with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties, for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the...

...under these different relations, it may help us to distinguish these powers one from another, and shew tates be less free than those composing the larger....if she has 1/10 only of the votes allowed to Pa. and penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties for the regulating and preserving of property,...

...and a Lord over his Slave. ... it may help us to distinguish these Powers one from another, and show the difference betwixt a Ruler of a Commonwealth, a Father of a Family, and a Captain of a Gallery.50 This was part and parcel of Locke's liberal politics — the family was a private association...

...right to property is guaranteed by the state; indeed, for Locke, this is the central role of the state: "Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties, for the regulating and preserving of property" (Macpherson 1962, 8)....