...as self-liquidating. Children are not born in a “state of Equality, though they are born to it.” Parents have “a sort of Rule and Jurisdiction over...come into the World, and for some time after, but ‘tis but a temporary one.” The bonds of children's subjection “are like the Swadling Cloths they...

...Groups: Problems in Fact and in Theory Though I have said .. . [t]hat all Men by Nature are equal. .. Children, I confess are not born in this full state...come into the World, and for some time after, but 'tis but a temporary one. —JOHNLOCKE, Essay concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil...

...a function of the children's acquisition of autonomy, and thus temporary and not self-referential. "Children, I confess, are not born in this full state of equality, though they are born to it."67 Mill's perspective is Lockean. The teleology driving his paternalism is neither hierarchical...

...hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man. 55. Children, I confess, are not born in this full state...come into the world, and for some time after, but 'tis but a temporary one. The bonds of this subjection are like the swaddling cloths they are wrapped...

...insists that although children are not born in a "state of equality, though they are born to it." Adults have "a sort of rule and jurisdiction over them when...into the world, and for some time after; but it is a temporary one." The bonds of children's subjection "are like the Swadling Cloths they are wrapt up...

...theory of self-ownership. 1. John Locke, in his Two Treatises on Government, p. 322, put it this way: Children I confess are not born in this full state of equality (of right to their natural freedom), though they are born to it. Their parents have a sort of rule...

...parents for it) aspires. We find this in Locke's idea that the capacity for reflection grows with age: Children, I confess are not born in this full state...come into the World, and for some time after, but 'tis but a temporary one. The Bonds of this Subjection are like the Swaddling Cloths they are wrapt...

...theorists. John Locke, writing in his Second Treatise on Government, noted, albeit somewhat reluctantly: "Children, I confess are not born in this full state...them when they come into the World, and for some time after."211 He goes on to comment later, "Children being not presently as soon as born, under this Law...

...his business; they are his property," (Macpherson, 1980, p. 9). But "Children," Locke goes on to say, are not born in this full state of equality, though...parents have a sort of rule and jurisdiction over them ... but it is a temporary one... Parents are 'by the law of nature,* under an obligation to preserve,...

...consent."81 On rare occasions, Locke allows for development in equality by admitting that children "are not born in this full state of Equality, though they are born to it," but the overall effect of his thought stresses equality as an original possession, part and parcel...