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e. the good of every particular member of that society, as far as by common rules it can be provided for; the sword is not
given the magistrate for his own good alone. Children therefore, as has been shewed, by the dependance they have on their
parents for subsistence, have a right of inheritance to their fathers property, as that which belongs to them for their proper
good and behoof, and therefore are fitly termed goods, wherein the first-born has not a sole or peculiar right by any law of
God and nature, the younger children having an equal title with him, founded on that right they all have to maintenance,
support, and comfort from their parents, and on nothing else. But government being for the benefit of the governed, and not
the sole advantage of the governors, (but only for their's with the rest, as they make a part of that politic body, each of