The reason why men enter into society

This rule, which the infinite wise maker  hath set to the works of his hands cheap oakleys, we find the inferior  creatures steadily obey.  In those viviparous animals which feed  on grass, the conjunction between male and female lasts no longer  than the very act of copulation; because the teat of the dam  being sufficient to nourish the young, till it be able to feed on  grass, the male only begets, but concerns not himself for the  female or young, to whose sustenance he can contribute nothing.   But in beasts of prey the conjunction lasts longer: because the  dam not being able well to subsist herself, and nourish her  numerous off-spring by her own prey alone, a more laborious, as  well as more dangerous way of living, than by feeding on grass,  the assistance of the male is necessary to the maintenance of  their common family, which cannot subsist till they are able to  prey for themselves, but by the joint care of male and female.   The same is to be observed in all birds, (except some domestic  ones, where plenty of food excuses the cock from feeding, and  taking care of the young brood) whose young needing food in the  nest, the cock and hen continue mates, till the young are able to  use their wing, and provide for themselves.  

  Sec. 222.  The reason why men enter into society, is the  preservation of their property; and the end why they chuse and  authorize a legislative, is, that there may be laws made, and  rules set, as guards and fences to the properties of all the  members of the society, to limit the power, and moderate the  dominion, of every part and member of the society: for since it  can never be supposed to be the will of the society, that the  legislative should have a power to destroy that which every one  designs to secure, by entering into society, and for which the  people submitted themselves to legislators of their own making;  whenever the legislators endeavour to take away, and destroy the  property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under  arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the  people, who are thereupon absolved from any farther obedience,  and are left to the common refuge oakley monster dog fakes, which God hath provided for  all men, against force and violence.  Whensoever therefore the  legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society;

and either by ambition, fear, folly or corruption, endeavour to  grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other, an absolute  power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the people; by  this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put  into their hands for quite contrary ends, and it devolves to the  people, who.  have a right to resume their original liberty, and,  by the establishment of a new legislative, (such as they shall  think fit) provide for their own safety and security, which is  the end for which they are in society.

  Sec. 81.  But tho'these are ties upon mankind, which make  the conjugal bonds more firm and lasting in man, than the other  species of animals; yet it would give one reason to enquire, why  this compact, where procreation and education are secured fake oakley monster dog sunglasses, and  inheritance taken care for, may not be made determinable, either  by consent, or at a certain time, or upon certain conditions, as  well as any other voluntary compacts, there being no necessity in  the nature of the thing, nor to the ends of it, that it should  always be for life; I mean, to such as are under no restraint of  any positive law, which ordains all such contracts to be  perpetual.      Sec. 82.  But the husband and wife, though they have but one  common concern, yet having different understandings, will  unavoidably sometimes have different wills too; it therefore  being necessary that the last determination, i. e.  the rule,  should be placed somewhere; it naturally falls to the man's  share, as the abler and the stronger.  But this reaching but to  the things of their common interest and property, leaves the wife  in the full and free possession of what by contract is her  peculiar right, and gives the husband no more power over her life  than she has over his; the power of the husband being so far from  that of an absolute monarch, that the wife has in many cases a  liberty to separate from him, where natural right, or their  contract allows it; whether that contract be made by themselves  in the state of nature, or by the customs or laws of the country  they live in; and the children upon such separation fall to the  father or mother's lot, as such contract does determine fake oakleys minute 2.0.      Sec. 83.  For all the ends of marriage being to be obtained  under politic government, as well as in the state of nature, the  civil magistrate cloth not abridge the right or power of either  naturally necessary to those ends, viz.  procreation and mutual  support and assistance whilst they are together; but only decides  any controversy that may arise between man and wife about them.