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Quotation from Patriarcha by Robert Filmer
“Mankind is naturally endowed and born with Freedom from all Subjection, and at liberty to choose what Form of Government it please”
Patriarcha, Ch. I, §1 (1680 first edition, EEBO-TCP text)
Filmer sets out, in order to refute it, the common opinion of the schools that the people are naturally free.
Citation: "Mankind is naturally endowed and born with Freedom from all Subjection, and at liberty to choose what Form of Government it please" — Robert Filmer, Patriarcha, Ch. I, §1 (1680 first edition, EEBO-TCP text). (id patriarcha-q1)
Portrait: Filmer, Sir Robert by Cornelius Johnson, Cornelis Janssens van Ceulen, Public domain.
