On the Foundation of Civil Government. <oi 



flavery is fuch as above defcribed, will be evi- 

 dent to any one who will be at the pains of think- 

 ing on the fubjea. Hence if any member of 

 a fociety is deprived of the means of aflenting 

 or diflenting, either by himfelf or his reprefen- 

 tative, to the regulations of that fociety to which 

 he is at the fame time obnoxious in quality of 

 being a member thereof ; or if through any cir- 

 cumftances which do not affeft the individuals 

 of the community in common as well as himfelf, 

 or to which he hath not had an opportunity of 

 previouQy aflenting, his aflent or diflent is render- 

 ed ineffedual, fuch perlbn is clearly under a do- 

 minion and rule which is not ultimately derived 

 from himfelf: his ftate with refped to thofe re- 

 gulations and the executive officers of them, is a 

 ftate of flavery, and the enforcement of thofe re- 

 gulations with refped to him is tyranny. Nor 

 is the nature of the thing changed becaufe others 

 are fufl^erers as well as himfelf, or becaufe the 

 tyranny is only exerted to a certain degree. 



XXV. The cafe of a ftranger, not perma- 

 nently refident, is hardly an exception to the 

 preceding propofition, for by the terms, fuch an 

 one is not a member of the fociety in quefl:ion, 

 but of fome other. And, in fad, his voluntary 

 refidence in or pafl'age through the territory of 

 any fociety but his own, amounts to an afl:ent 

 for the time to the regulations of that fociety 

 which he thus voluntarily enters. 



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