men living together according to reason , without a common superior on earth with authority to judge between them, is properly the state of nature. But force, or a declared design of force, upon the person of another, where there is no common superior on earth to appeal to for relief, is the state of war. Want of a common judge with authority puts all men in a state of nature; force without right upon a man’s person makes a state of war both where there is, and is not, a common judge.