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.
to his conscience, and to his labour;
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;
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.