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Comment: “The end of law is not to abolish or restrain but to preserve and enlarge freedom.” (Locke)

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  • Equality and Liberty

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The sentence is from §57 of John Locke's Second Treatise of Government (1689, dated 1690), in the chapter "Of Paternal Power". Children are governed by parents because they cannot yet know the law of reason; adults who can are free under law, for "where there is no law, there is no freedom".

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