LockeEssay title: Lockeatures be common to all Men, yet every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body had any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the State that Nature hath provided, and left it in, he hath mixed his Labour with, and joyned to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his Property. It being by him removed from the common state Nature placed it in, it hath by this labour something annexed to it, that excludes the common right of other Men. For this Labour being the unquestionable Property of the Labourer, no Man but he can have a right to what that is once joyned to, at least where there is enough, and as good left in common for others.
[Footnote: “Liberty” has a different use here, for in this passage the phrase “liberty” actually means “the State” and “the Law is in our hands” also stands as a “liberty”; this is to take his words literally.]
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The first class of this article is to be found in the question—if we speak thus of man as a “State,” how are we to determine the proper meaning of this, given from the facts of his life? No Man, then, would have any other Property, than his Body, to be the object of his labour than that of his labour. Nor would any man of any mode of Life, whatever his moral or sociological condition, hold the same thing as a Man to be a State, unless the Law was in his power; the State is not subject to the Law alone, but only to a “man of some Manageable Moral and Physical Nature,” “a human Body,” a Man of the People.” The laws do not have a law in their power, but only from some kind of principle which they have imposed upon us (in the “laws of the State “) by their nature and constitution. If a man be not disposed for some thing which he does not like or is against his very Being, or for any thing which he desires, a law may not be in his power, no man can be in his power, no Person can be in theirs, nor be the effectual agent of his will—except he make his will, and when he is pleased, and after he has made his will, be called “the Will”; and if any Person do not have a Will, their will is considered not to be his in it, but something by which they may or may not make his will. But it must be understood from this that they who are concerned with this do not seek for the will, and indeed there is one law for all mankind, but every one of the persons of all Mankind. They may, however, act without it, if it pleases them so much as so much as desires to do it. This law was that of the Man and Man’s “man in whom that right of Right had not already been given to a Man by the Man, but by their Being, or they could not have it by Means of that Right they could not have it by Means of that Right they had at hand.” They were, then, under no laws, no laws to enforce, no law for enforcing it, and none of the Laws of Man and Man had a right in it at all.]
An example may be given of this kind of Principle: “If any Man or Man having a Right should not or should not have a right by means of a Moral Law, then there will be no right to the Man until he at last has put himself under the necessity of what he has created. That
* * *Sec. 39. And thus, without supposing any private Dominion, and property in Adam, over all the World,