488 On the Foundation of Civil Government. 



8. Does not aSiual fower^ the pjfejfton of force 

 give right ? 



No : for if fo, then is any man juftified in 

 defpoiling another, provided the firft be the 

 ftronger. Moreover if might give right, then 

 ought every parent of fixty or feventy to be in 

 abfolute fubjedion to his more powerful fon of 

 thirty. 



9. From conquejl. 



With refped to the original derivation of civil 

 authority this claim is nugatory : conqueft muft 

 neceffarily have been pofterior to communities, 

 or conqueft itfelf could not have been. 



Conqueft, however, is in all cafes purfued 

 either (a) for the mere purpofes of ambition 

 and increafe of territory : or (b) in purfuit of a 

 war in fome other way unjuftly commenced on 

 the part of the conquerors : or (c) to compel 

 refticution for a national injury committed: or 

 (d) to prevent any farther attempt of the fame 

 kind where there is good ground to fufped fuch 

 an intention. 



In the cafes (a) and (b) conqueft can never 

 fupport the claim in queftion ; for an ad of in- 

 juftice can never be the foundation of an equi- 

 table right. 



In the cafe (c) if the vanquiftied nation make 

 reftitution, no farther claim lies againft them, 

 and it feidom if ever happens that reftitution 



cannot 



