We have these inalienable rights, and in the exercise of these same inalienable rights, we agree with each other to form civil governments. And Madison has an essay on sovereignty, which is a sort of simplified repetition of John Locke's argument in the second chapter of the Second Treatise.


The Real Abraham Lincoln: A Debate (2002)

Harry V. Jaffa Quotes

We have these inalienable rights, and in the exercise of these same inalienable rights, we agree with each other to form civil governments. And...

We have these inalienable rights, and in the exercise of these same inalienable rights, we agree with each other to form civil governments. And...

We have these inalienable rights, and in the exercise of these same inalienable rights, we agree with each other to form civil governments. And...

We have these inalienable rights, and in the exercise of these same inalienable rights, we agree with each other to form civil governments. And...