...through religious worship. The former include everyone's interest in "life, liberty, health, and the indolency of body; and the possession of outward things,...as money, lands, houses, furniture and the like." Religious practice, however, is an entirely different matter, aiming as it does at the "salvation of...

...there the first traces of another, more fundamental argument as well. "The commonwealth', Locke writes, 'seems to me to be a society of men constituted only for preserving and advancing their civil goods. What I call civil goods are life, liberty, bodily health...

...Ibid., no. 51, p. 324; no. 10, p. 78. Publius was reiterating the Lockean position: The commonwealth seems to me to be a society of men constituted only...call life, liberty, health, and indolency of body; the possession of outward things, such as money, lands, houses, furniture, and the like. . . . Now...

...functional terms. Early in the Letter, he says in an apparently definitional tone: "The commonwealth seems to me to be a society of men constituted only for preserving 92 and advancing their civil goods" (p. 17), where civil goods are defined as "life, liberty,...

...for the interest of men's souls, and, on the other side, a care of the commonwealth. The commonwealth seems to me to be a society of men constituted only for the procuring, preserving, and advancing of their own civil interests. Civil interests I call life, liberty, health, and indolency of body;...

...defining these general goods, Richards invokes Locke's description of "civil interests," which include "'life, liberty, health, and indolency of body; and...as money, lands, houses, furniture, and the like.'" 54 He illustrates how confining government to the pursuit of "general goods" would affect religious...

...54). Governments are only established to protect wordly goods and civil interests. The Commonwealth seems to me to be a society of men constituted only for preserving and advancing their civil goods. 1 What I call civil goods are life, liberty, bodily health...

...commonwealth and, so, to his account of the separation of church and commonwealth. The commonwealth is "a society of Men constituted only for the procuring, preserving, and advancing of their own civil Interests," where these are "Life, Liberty, Health, and Indolency of Body; and the...

...the "civil interests" of others—"life, liberty, health and indolence of body; and the possessions of outward things, such as money, lands, houses, furniture, and the like." 49 Unless these basic interests are protected against invasion by others, peaceful social life cannot...

...to nie to be a society of men consututed only for the procuring, the preserving and the advancing of their own civil interests. Civil interests I call...things, such as money, lands, houses, furniture, and the Uke" (Locke, John: "A Letter concerning Toleration, being a Translation of the Epistola de Tolerantia",...