1st EditionDahia Ibo Shabaka, Larry S. Krieger, Linda Black, Phillip C. Naylor, Roger B. Beck
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Jackson J. Spielvogel
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WORLD HISTORY Read the document to answer the following questions. “4. To understand political Power right, and derive it from its Original, we must consider, what State all Men are naturally in. and that is. a State of perfect Freedom to order their Actions, and dispose of their Possessions, and Persons as they think fit, within the Bounds of the Law of Nature, without asking Leave, or depending upon the Will of any other Man. A State also of Equality wherein all the Power and Jurisdiction is Reciprocal, no one having more than another, there being nothing more evident, than that the Creatures of the same Species and Rank, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of Nature, and the use of the same Faculties, should also be equal one amongst another without Subordination or Subjection, unless the Lord and Master of them all should by any Manifest Declaration of his Will set one above another, and confer on him, by an evident and clear Appointment, an undoubted Right to Dominion and Sovereignty. 6. But though this be a State of Liberty yet it is not a State of License; though Man in that State have an uncontrollable Liberty, to dispose of his Person or Possessions..” —from John Locke's Two Treatises of Government. What does Locke consider true freedom?