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Thomas
Hobbes: The Nature and Necessity of the
Family
Leviathan, Part
II, Chapter 22
Private bodies regular and lawful are those that
are constituted without letters, or other written
authority, saving the laws common to all other
subjects. And because they be united in one person
representative, they are held for regular; such as
are all families, in which the father or
master ordereth the whole family. For he
obligeth his children, and servants, as far as the
law permitteth, though not further, because none of
them are bound to obedience in those actions which
the law hath forbidden to be done. In all other
actions, during the time they are under domestic
government, they are subject to their fathers and
masters, as to their immediate sovereigns. For the
father and master being before the institution of
Commonwealth absolute sovereigns in their own
families, they lose afterward no more of
their authority than the law of the Commonwealth
taketh from them.
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