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Even though I am free,
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I'm not free to violate the law of nature.
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I'm not free to take my own life
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or to sell my self into slavery
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or to give to somebody else arbitrary absolute power over me.
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So where does this constraint, you may think it's a fairly minimal constraint,
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but where does it come from?
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Well, Locke tells us where it comes from
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and he gives two answers.
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Here is the first answer.
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"For men, being all the workmanship of one omnipotent,
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and infinitely wise maker," Namely God,