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But as to the Alienation of any one part of the whole, it is further requisite that that part that is to be alienated, consent thereunto. For they that first entred into that socie∣ty, did (as may be presumed) contract a firm and immortal League among themselves, for the defence of all those parts which are called Integrants: Whence it follows, that
these parts are not so under their own body, as the members of a natural body, which cannot live without the life of the body; and are therefore for the preservation of the body sometimes justly cut off. But this body whereof we now speak, is constituted after another manner, namely, by mutual consent and agreement; and therefore its power over its parts depends wholly upon the will and intention of them who first instituted that society, who without doubt would never have granted such a power to the whole, as to abscind from it self any of its parts, and to give them up into the power of another.