1.) PG here, Thursday, March 27, 2025, Day 45, Chapter 7, Of Political or Civil Society conclusion. Section 94 and reference at the bottom of the page. Hooker's Eccl. Pol. l. i. sect. 10.)

(**Civil law being the act of the whole body politic, doth therefore over-rule each several part of the

same body. Hooker, ibid.)

In 93 we read when men find a member or members of society not obeying the civil laws they all made together and agreed to, they find themselves back in a state of nature with no judges or assemblymen to appeal to. In this state they, out of self-preservation, will gather men around them to form a new government of politics. These men have found that those who were there to appeal to stepped out of the laws or bounds that brought them together. And now they are in a state of war, trying to dominate and enslave those who had communed with them.
PG here 2.) ***Declaration of Independence. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
***(whereas government has no other end but the preservation of* property),*** when it stops doing that, men form society to stand against the tyranny. ***....they had devised for a remedy, did indeed but increase the sore, which it should have cured.***
PG here 3.) Early post today. A life like the Quakers in 1600s, 1700s, and 1800s. They came from all around the world to worship God freely, live by his laws, live by a set of high moral standards, and raise a lot of children, raise herds of animals, and farm to provide for themselves and their offspring, building homes and storehouses, barns, with the help of other men having barn raisings, building houses together, and volunteering to help one another. It is right out of the Bible. Own their own land! No taxes! The Amish and Mennonites still carry on these practices.
PG here 4.) Section 93 excerpt: .... which the negligent, and unforeseeing innocence of the first ages began, had brought in successors of another stamp, the people finding their properties not secure under the government, as then it was, (whereas government has no other end but the preservation of* property) could never be safe nor at rest, nor think themselves in civil society, till the legislature was placed in collective bodies of men, call them senate, parliament, or what you please. By which means every single person became subject, equally with other the meanest men, to those laws, which he himself, as part of the legislative, had established; nor could anyone, by his own authority; avoid the force of the law, when once made;.............
PG here, 5.) .............nor by any pretence of superiority plead exemption, thereby to license his own, or the miscarriages of any of his dependents.** No man in civil society can be exempted from the laws of it: for if any man may do what he thinks fit, and there be no appeal on earth, for redress or security against any harm he shall do; I ask, whether he be not perfectly still in the state of nature, and so can be no part or member of that civil society;...................they had devised for a remedy, did indeed but increase the sore, which it should have cured.

Hooker: They saw, that to live by one man's will, became the cause of all men's misery. This constrained them to come unto laws, wherein all men might see their duty beforehand, and know the penalties of transgressing them. Hooker's Eccl. Pol. l. i. sect. 10.)

(**Civil law being the act of the whole body politic, doth therefore over-rule each several part of the same body. Hooker, ibid.)