The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suff...
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There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.
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Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.
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As usurpation is the exercise of power, which another hath a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which no body can hav...
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