Quoted in J. Michael Martinez, The Leviathan's Choice (Lantham, MD: Rowman &, 2002), 44. 16. Locke, John, Two Treatises of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), 107. 17.
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