But they insisted on constraints to ensure they were not ransacked.
The principal constraints were the Rule of Law and the Preservation of Private Property within the law.
When either, or both, of those constraints are usurped, the compact has been broken.
And at that point white men with property and power are free to act in their own best interests.
If you haven't read Lock's Second Treatise, you clearly demonstrated the Law of Nature (The Law of Reason) on your own. It isn't rocket science.
If John Locke could come back and examine our situation, there is no doubt he would describe it as a state of war.
The people are expected to follow a compact that no longer exists. We are to regard all of Obama’s diktats as the supreme law of the land, while Obama acts without restraint.
This is not government; it is violence.