Political society substitutes enforceable legal arrangements for unsafe human partiality.

Evidence

The very purpose of political society itself is precisely to stand in — by clear and predictable legal and judicial arrangements, backed by effective powers of enforcement - for the erratic and dangerous conditions generated by the collision of institutionally unrestrained human partiality. The best condition open to human beings, in his eyes, was the enjoyment of an environment in which men were fortunate enough to be able to have well-founded confidence (Locke 1979: 148; Dunn 1980: 243). — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1193

Categorization

• XREF: Locke’s institutional stand-in for unrestrained partiality parallels Hardin’s claim that trust requires observable constraints — what the doctor’s wife embodies for the blind. — connects to: Equal operation of law prevents officials escaping political backlash through selective enforcement. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 202; Political responsibility requires abandoning the fantasy of escaping human forms of life — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 356
• SEED: Angle: the sighted wife as the ‘political society’ of the blindness colony — a single agent standing in for the legal-judicial enforcement Locke describes.