... between ourselves and them that are as ourselves, what several rules and canons natural reason hath drawn for direction of life no man is ignorant." (Eccl. Pol. i.)* * Richard Hooker, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. THE LAW OF NATURE: [II. 6] 6. But though this be a state of liberty, yet it is not a state of ... consents, they make themselves members of some politic society, and I doubt not, in the sequel of this discourse, to make it very clear. Chapter III: Of the State of War: [III. 16-18] 16. The state of war is a state of enmity and destruction; and therefore declaring by word or...

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On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee proposed independence for the American Colonies to the Second Continental Congress. A mere twenty-four days later, Thomas Jefferson's formal statement of independence from England was adopted by the ... the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson used concepts of natural law, guaranteed freedoms, and self-determination to eloquently compile a list of reasons why the American Colonies were revolting from King George III and English rule. Upon hearing the concepts of these basic rights, colonists where frenzied to a put where revolution was the only choice. Th...

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