To Locke the state of nature was "men living together according to reason without a common superior on earth, with authority to judge between them- (Chapter 19, Two Treatises). He saw man in the state of nature as a king, "an absolute lord over his person and possessions-. ... some men', in chapter 19 of the Two Treatises. ... Is the only way to determine it a cursory return to the state of nature, Lord of the Flies style? ... And the objective eye would look past the Fourth of July brouhaha and note that indeed very little did actually change from 1775 to 1782, other than power was cen...

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