Bouvier
Liberty
Treatise #2 of Beers's 11-treatise corpus. Argues that liberty — freedom from servitude — is divinely mandated, that 'person' is an artificial civil-law construct distinct from 'man' as a term of nature, and that the common law is 'founded upon the Holy Bible.' The person/man distinction and the biblical-foundation claim are both verdicted at the survey-anchor level.
Person / Man Distinction (Beers)
Byron Beers's central definitional move, recurring across Treatises 2, 7, 9, and 10: 'person' is a creature of civil law — a legal fiction whose status the sovereign confers and can revoke — while 'man' is the natural condition of human beings outside that taxonomy. The distinction is used to argue that statutes addressed to 'persons,' 'residents,' or 'individuals' bind only those who hold the corresponding legal status, not 'free men and women' operating under the natural order. The historical fact that older legal dictionaries treated 'person' as a status-bearing term is correct; the inference Beers builds on it is foreclosed by every statute that defines 'person' for its own purposes.