"If every man has the right of defending, even by force, his person, his libery, and his property, a number of men have the right to combine together to extend, to organize a common force to provide regularly for this defense.
Collective right, then, has its principle, its reason for existing, its lawfulness, in individual right; and the common force cannot raitonally have any other end, or any other mission, than that of the isolated forces for which it is substituted. Thus, as the f ...