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ren ([personal profile] forethinking) wrote in [community profile] tabularasa_rp 2020-10-12 07:42 pm (UTC)

(While he speaks very little, Ren does have a good rhythm when he's wordier. It's simply something he picked up with Yoshida, through his public speaking tutoring, so, therefore, Ren reads, flawless in tone and flow.)

"Whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community, must be understood to give up all the power, necessary to the ends for which they unite into society, to the majority of the community, unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority. And this is done by barely agreeing to unite into one political society, which is all the compact that is, or needs be, between the individuals, that enter into, or make up a commonwealth."

(And... Nope! That didn't help at all. If only, it made him more confused to the point he sits up, a hand combing his hair back as he attempts, one more time, to read this godforsaken line to himself.

??? Any number greater than the majority?? What do you even mean, John Locke?? Isn't that unanimity??)

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