11 Jan y 1817

Necessity Cat.

1. Theory

§ {2}. Forms of Government

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Q. 5. And so there is no such thing as {supreme} political power on the one part - at least to any sufficiently extensive and useful[?] purpose, without active obedience, passive obedience and non-resistance on the other.

A. No verily.

{ Q. 6. And so, in respect of one of these elements of subjection man stands upon no higher no other footing than so many stocks or stones.

A. No: for such is the subjection manifested by a man, who without resistance he is to suffer himself to be flogged, put in irons, carried to a prison confined in a prison, {or hanged}}

Omitt?

Q. 6 What are you a disciple then of Sibthorpe and Mainwaring? an adherent /do you adhere/ to the decree of the University of Oxford?

A. Not exactly so. What /The subjection/ they speak of, they speak of as /as opponent, but at the same time as morally/ fit and proper to be manifested: the subjection I speak of I speak of as not being optimal, but physically necessary to the existence of government: in so much that no government good or bad, can for a moment have existence without it. What /The subjection/ they speak of as their morally fit and proper, they speak of as having no proper limits: the subjection I speak of as necessary to the existence of ab[?] government is susceptible of whatsoever limits habit ever has or ever can set to it. /set to it./