Rights given up upon joining society
6/8 Mr. WILSON: Federal liberty is to the States what civil liberty is to private individuals; and States are not
more unwilling to purchase it, by the necessary concession of their political sovereignty, than the savage is to
purchase civil liberty by the surrender of the personal sovereignty, which he enjoys in a state of nature.
6/28 Mr. SHERMAN: The question is, not what rights naturally belong to man, but how they may be most equally
and effectually guarded in society. And if some give up more than others, in order to obtain this end, there can
be no room for complaint. To do otherwise, to require an equal concession from all, if it would create danger to
the rights of some, would be sacrificing the end to the means. The rich man who enters into society along with
the poor man gives up more than the poor man, yet with an equal vote he is equally safe. Were he to have more
votes than the poor man, in proportion to his superior stake, the rights of the poor man would immediately
cease to be secure.