# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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is not arbitrary, by being abſolute, but is ſtill
limited by that reaſon, and confined to thoſe
Ends for which it was made abſolute.

Government, into whoſe ever Hands it is [margin: Locke on Go- vernment.]
put, was entruſted with this Condition, and
for this End, that Men might have and pre-
ſerve their Property. The Prince or Senate
may have Power to make Laws for the Re-
gulation of Property between the Subjects one
amongſt another, but can never have the
Power to take to themſelves the whole, or
any Part, of any Subject's Property, without
his own Conſent.

Ad Reges Poteſtas omnium pertinet, ad
Singulos Proprietas, Univerſa ſunt in Imperio
Cæſaris, in Patrimonio propria.

But it is one of the Conditions under which
Civil Property is held in all Societies, that
the Owners may be forced to part with it to
ſerve the Neceſſities, or even the Convenien-
cies of the State.

I admit this Exception; but to this Con-
dition another is inſeparably annexed, the
Condition of equivalent, and Compenſation
from the public to the private Owner. All
the great Authorities concur in this Point.

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