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John Locke: Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by common to everyone of that society and made by the legislative power erected in it, a liberty to follow my own will in all things where that rule prescribes not, not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary will of another man, as freedom of nature is to be under no other restraint but the law of nature.

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And in Iraq, finally, violence is on the rise again, and the country has yet to form a government four months after its last parliamentary elections.

The government also promises land and hunting rights in the surrounding states.

In fact, this is the only war in American history in which the government negotiated a peace by conceding everything demanded by the enemy.

1871: The Indian Appropriation Act makes all Indians wards of the federal government.

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