nds of the community in all cases that exclude him not from appealing for protection to the law established by it (Locke, p. 46).
This logically proceeds to the idea that citizens should not be merely subject to the will of the ruler. Rather, government is an artifact of citizen participation, for everybody has a stake in the fact that property distribution remains settled and organized. This is the case even though some individuals may end up with more and better property than others, according as they have used their rational capacity to survive and prosper. Authority, like property, is diffused, or cut up into little pieces, in a systematic way in a legitimate state, even though that state might include a sovereign.
Locke expects and intends that human beings will use their reason to survive and/or prosper. Some individuals' prosperity may be limited by their capacities and available resources, while others may have unlimited resources or capacities, hence a wider range of optional actions to choose from and a larger share of property. But any limitati
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