Freedom of Labour
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freedom of labour · natural rights of labour · freedom of exchanges · natural freedom of labour · natural right to provide for subsistence, comfort and pleasure · right to his labour
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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The natural right of each person to the free exercise and fruits of his own labour, treated as a foundation of civil society alongside freedom of conscience.
The natural rights of labour, in subjecting themselves to contributions for the support of civil government, never meant to acknowledge themselves to be the slaves of a despotick power.
The right of each man to his own labour, by which only his life can be preserved, is as much a natural right, as a right to life itself;
to his conscience, and to his labour;