and those great ones again breaking to pieces, dissolved into lesser dominions. All which are so many testimonies against paternal sovereignty, and plainly prove, that it was not the natural right of the father descending to his heirs, that made governments in the beginning, since it was impossible, upon that ground, there should have been so many little kingdoms; all must have been but only one universal monarchy, if men had not been at liberty to separate themselves from their families, and the government, be it what it will, that was set up in it, and go and make distinct commonwealths and other governments, as they thought fit.
Honek guztiak dira subiranotasun aitatiarraren aurka areagoko frogak, eta egiaztatzen dute gobernuak ez direla hasten seme-alabei transmititzen zaien aitaren eskubide naturaletik, hau bateraezina baita hainbat erreinu txiki egotearekin. Pertsonak ez balira libre beraien familiengandik eta bertan zegoen edozein gobernutik, bereiztu ezinik eta beste erkidego edo gobernu batzuk beraien gustura ezin osatuz, ez legoke monarkia unibertsal bakarra baizik.