With it, however, come certain duties. One is the duty to use our reason as God’s gift; another is to protect our liberty and the liberty of others. The most important, however, is the duty of the sovereign to respect that liberty: and when he doesn’t, when “he that in a State of Society would take away the Freedom that belongs to those of that Society,” and pretends to be our master rather than our servant, then it is he, not us, who is the real rebel against society.37
