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ihlr-16466	Mitchell, John B.	My Father, John Locke, and Assisted Suicide: The Real Constitutional Right	2006	60	.pdf	application/pdf	33026	1816	63	19' Locke's conceptual concern, on the other hand, comes out of the nature of the social contract as a mechanism to protect property.196 The protection of property, which the state insures in the bargain, includes the individual person as well as land and possessions.197 What Locke wanted to prevent was affording any theoretical basis upon which it could be claimed that individuals had ceded to the state the right to arbitrarily kill them as part of the contract.198 Certainty such rights had historically been claimed by absolute despots, and Locke wanted no part in creating a philosophical system which could legitimate such appalling governance.199 See Kim C. Arestad, V acco v. Quill and the Debate over Physician Assisted Suicide: Is the Right to Die Protected by the Fourteenth Amendment?, 15 N. Y.L. SCH.	cache/ihlr-16466.pdf	txt/ihlr-16466.txt