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... a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.

Some considerations of the consequences of lowering the interest and raising ... - Page 334
by John Locke - 1824
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The Graduate Student's Question

Walter L. Battaglia - Philosophy - 2005 - 499 pages

...the beginning, there was the State of Nature. Locke shares Hobbes assumption that in nature, there is "A State also of Equality, wherein all the Power and...Jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another: . . ."20 Locke goes on to find a moral principle in nature, "The State of Nature has a Law of Nature...

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