“It appears… that there is a closer coincidence between those rights which have been denominated natural, civil, and political, than writers on law and government have generally been disposed to allow… That man, on entering into civil society sacrifices a part of his natural liberty, has been very generally asserted, or taken for granted… This notion of sacrifice must have been adopted from a very indefinite and, indeed, very absurd notion of natural liberty…”
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Rights Natural, Relative, and Social
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“It appears… that there is a closer coincidence between those rights which have been denominated natural, civil, and political, than writers on law and government have generally been disposed to allow… That man, on entering into civil society sacrifices a part of his natural liberty, has been very generally asserted, or taken for granted… This notion of sacrifice must have been adopted from a very indefinite and, indeed, very absurd notion of natural liberty…”