Changes

{{cquote|When our people were fed out of the common store, and laboured jointly together, glad was he could slip from his labour, or slumber over his taske he cared not how, nay, the most honest among them would hardly take so much true paines in a weeke, as now for themselves they will doe in a day, neither cared they for the increase, presuming that howsoever the harvest prospered, the generall store must maintaine them, so that wee reaped not so much Corne from the labours of thirtie as now three or foure doe provide for themselves. To prevent which, Sir Thomas Dale hath allotted every man three Acres of cleare ground, in the nature of Farmes....}}

{{cquote|When our people were fed out of the common store, and laboured jointly together, glad was he could slip from his labour, or slumber over his taske he cared not how, nay, the most honest among them would hardly take so much true paines in a weeke, as now for themselves they will doe in a day, neither cared they for the increase, presuming that howsoever the harvest prospered, the generall store must maintaine them, so that wee reaped not so much Corne from the labours of thirtie as now three or foure doe provide for themselves. To prevent which, Sir Thomas Dale hath allotted every man three Acres of cleare ground, in the nature of Farmes....}}

::-John Smith, ''The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles, together with The true travels, adventures and observations, and A sea grammar - Volume 1'' (1614), [http://memory.loc.gov/gc/lhbcb/0262a/0266.tif p. 222]

::-John Smith, ''The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles, together with The true travels, adventures and observations, and A sea grammar - Volume 1'' (1614), [http://memory.loc.gov/gc/lhbcb/0262a/0266.tif p. 222]

::...the 2. agents sent from Leyden.... presumed to conclude with the marchants on those termes....

::...the 2. agents sent from Leyden.... presumed to conclude with the marchants on those termes....

::-John Milton, ''Paradise Regain'd'' (1671 ed.)

::-John Milton, ''Paradise Regain'd'' (1671 ed.)

[E]very Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his.

 

{{cquote|[E]very Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his.}}

-John Locke, ''[http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch16s3.html Second Treatise on Government]'' (1689)

-John Locke, ''[http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch16s3.html Second Treatise on Government]'' (1689)

[A]ll Mankind ... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his Life, Health, Liberty, or Possessions.

{{cquote|[H]e who appropriates land to himself by his labour, does not lessen but increase the common stock of mankind. For the provisions serving to the support of humane life, produced by one acre of inclosed and cultivated land, are (to speak much within compasse) ten times more, than those, which are yeilded by an acre of Land, of an equal richnesse, lyeing wast in common.

-John Locke, ''[http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/v1ch2s1.html Second Treatise on Government]'' (1689)

-John Locke, ''[http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch16s3.html Second Treatise on Government]'' (1689)

{{cquote|[T]here is a natural law, and it does not consist either in doing harm to others, or in rejoicing thereat.}}

{{cquote|[T]here is a natural law, and it does not consist either in doing harm to others, or in rejoicing thereat.}}