Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-09-13
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The dafe b natzye, wtiacn must DC great
saws he, g where men may be judges IN
/" their own case, since It is easy 70 be
g imagined that he who was 50 unjust as ]
g odo his brothefan injury, will scarce.
!" lysbe 50 just as to condemn hlh'sel'
e forit.''
Mr.. Locke then traces the progress OF
society through the first acquisitions up g
the confirmation of propertr. lie says
that il is the taking airy part Of what y
carmen, and removing it cut Of the STATE
nature leaves il which begins she properly;
without which the common would DC OF no
use: this property he confines in the hrst
instance in a state of nature to what the
person can make use of toadvantage before
it spoils. And as Sod commanded labour
and made it necessary to man, SO much
land as man tllls, plants, improves,
cultiyates and can use the product OF, SO
much is his property. I" God command
ed,o says he, " and mans wants forced
him to labour. That was his property
which could be taken from him where
ever he had fixed. And hence suDdulng
and cultivating the earth and having do
MINOR, we see are joined sogether.-lhe
one gave title TO the other. So that God
! by commanding to subdur gave authority
SO far to appropriate : And.the condition
! of human life, which requires labour and
materials to work on, necessarily IN
PRODUCES private possession. "-C6ap. 5.
Payt. s..
He then goes on TO fate that the ex
tent of property, is by nature bounded by
mems Iabour. As foon as metals (modey)
were confdered as valuable, and imall
piece of gold came to pats for The mark
of an equal value of large quantity OF the
produce of labour, then whatever fuper-
Ruity a mans labour could yield him
over and above his own neceHary con.
fumption, became his property by ex-
change for metal, to be di(poicdo OF at his
p!eafurc, and thus even in fate OF ma
,urc, that bugbe0r in the eye of jacobins,
the Right of accumulating property, Is
completely ,juRihed. Thelc are Mr..
Locke's words" But fnce gold and
g Glver being little ufeful to the life OF
I" man in proportion to food, ralment, and
6 carriage, has its value only from the
es content of men, whereof labouE yet
[" makes in great part the meaiure, il
/" is plain that men have agreed to
!" adybvb0rti0uate and ursqaal pqDJFea
:" Of t5e eartb." So much sor egxal
Rights in probe,ty.
Having conducted man in the pfogreis
Of his rights through fate ofnature, Mr..
Locke comes to political or eivil society,
the great end of ali of which every thing
antecedent is TO be conGdered the BATS;
he fays,a God having made man iuch
creature, that in his own judgment it was
not good for him TO be alone, put him
under itrong obligations OF neceility con-
venience, and inclination to drive him
into fociety, as we'll as fitted him with
understanding and language to contrivc
and enjoy it," He then proceeds to ihew
the expedicncy of marriage-thus marking
out and eitablilhing the neceaity of thoie
two great and fundamental iources of TO
cie.y and governmcn'--Psaaerty and Mar
rage.
He then proceeds to thew how iadivi-
dual right neceRarily mtrg<s at laa in TO-
ciety. " But, Jays he, becaule no poll
,ical fcciety can be, nor fubhf withous
having in ;tielf the power to prefefve the
property and in order thereunto punilh the
offences of all tholc of that fociety,
where eueyy one e,ftb< members dAtb qa;t.
ted ibis natural p0s0er, and rxkgnedN up
iint0 the hands d The Community, in all ca
fes that excludes him not, from appealing
for protection to the law efablilhed by it.
p = II