protect men and women against arbitrary acts committed by the State
This practice of personal arbitrary action under the guise of collective leadership must be resolutely opposed.
It's a measure of Milton's ambition and his intellectual courage that enables him to set out to justify a God who can inflict upon his creatures such a seemingly arbitrary act of licensing.
Thus thecreation, which seems an arbitrary act, supposes laws as invariable as those ofthe fatality of the Atheists.