...the right to, in fact, be recipients of these proper parental duties. Children are "not present free: for law, in its true notion is not so much the limitation...as the direction of a free and intelligent agent... The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom: for in all the states...

...protect themselves and their selfish interests. Selfishness is antijustice. As Carl Frederich argues, "Law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation...for the general good of those under that law." The goal of law "is not to abolish and restrain, but to preserve and expand freedom."96 In Akan, justice...

...who retained rights derived from a pre-social natural law. '[L]aw, in its true notion', Locke said, 'is not so much the limitation as the direction of...is for the general good of those under that law.' Natural law existed in the state of nature, where men could acquire property in things through adding...

...what Stephen Holmes calls a "pivotal, but largely neglected, liberal idea" first formulated by Locke: "Law, in its true Notion, is not so much the Limitation...intelligent agent to his proper Interest, and prescribes no further than is for the general Good of those under the Law."25 And here, mirabile dictu, we have an...

...good and the entrenchment of proprietors. 31 Security of property was what Locke knew as 'freedom', for 'law in its true notion, is not so much the limitation...free and intelligent agent to his proper interest'; 32 thus law's object was not 'to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom', understood...

...author and obeys it from the impluse for self-preservation. Locke says, "Law is, in its true notion, not so much the limitation as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his true interest... So that however it may be mistaken, the end of law is not to abolish or restrain but...

...Mankind, no Human Sanction can be good, or valid against it" (^|135; see also U171). where Locke says: "For Law, in its true Notion, is not so much the Limitation...than is for the general Good of those under that Law. Could they be happier without it, the Law, as a useless thing would of itself vanish. . . . the end...

...Adam's children, being not presently as soon as born, under this law of reason, were not presently free. ional power ought to flow immediately from that pure...State of New York. The necessity of a constitution, Could they be happier without it, the law, as an useless thing, would of it self vanish: and that ill...

...such in relation to the law that, by framing its boundaries, makes it possible."40 As Locke puts it, Law, in its true Notion, is not so much the Limitation...than is for the general Good of those under that Law. Could they be happier without it, the Law, as an useless thing would of it self vanish; and that ill...

...beings capable of laws, where there is no law, there is no freedom.. . . for law,' Locke elaborated, 'in its true notion, is not so much the limitation...farther than is for the general good of those under that law.'44 For Locke, and for all subsequent liberals, government by laws and not by men was thus a necessity....