3. POLITICAL POWER, then, I take to be a RIGHT of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties, for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the force of the community, in the execution of such laws, and in the defence of the commonwealth from foreign injury;
3. Hortaz, ene ustetan, botere politikoa ondokoa da: heriotza-zigorra dagokien legeak egiteko eskubidea, eta beraz gainontzeko zehapen txikiagoetarakoa ere.