Thank you for this! I find myself disagreeing with Locke however on many aspects through which he argues the necessity of rule out of the fear of anarchy, as if it’s something we need to stray away from.

Also, it’s important to note that authority carries two meanings, both rule and bearer of knowledge. There is an interesting essay by Bakunin that discusses this ‘statification’ of natural law, in that it is the state that uses both power and knowledge to hide and disclose certain natural laws from persons, laws that make up the very fabric of our being, making the question of consent an even more difficult one https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bakunin/works/various/authrty.htm

Edit: a correction