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beyond what the circumftances require for which 

 it Was delegated ; or beyond or without or againft 

 the inclinations of the majority of the perfons 

 deputing them, the rights of the latter are 

 infringed and they are injured. 



XXUI. But every matj who does an in- 

 jury to another, of whatever kind or to what- 

 ever extent, is accountable to the perfon injured, 

 who may demand redrefs. Hence whenever the 

 perfons deputed exercife their authority inconfift- 

 ently with the ends for which it was committed 

 to them, they are accountable to the people who 

 committed it. But as rhe people who committed 

 it retain the right of judging whether it be pro- 

 perly exetted or not, the perfons to whom it 

 is committed are accountable to the people uni- 

 verfally. That is, the governors of whatever 

 defcription in every fociety upon earth are ac- 

 countable to the governed. 



XXIV. By Prop. I. and II. no perfon can 

 juftly exercife any power or dominion over ano- 

 ther, but what is precedently derived from that 

 other : nor indeed can any other definition in 

 fubftance be given of flavery than, •' that ftate 

 " or condition in which a man is governed with- 

 " out* his confent." Sometimes indeed the 

 cafes may be fo few and the degree fo flight, 

 that it pafles unnoticed. But that the effence of 



• Not, " againft," for this may confift with freedom. 



flavery 



