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Often appears with: rights and liberties · preservation of property · legislators against trust · erecting a new legislative · constitutions and founding law
Usually: argument (1) · the fall of the great (1)
Locke argues that when government is dissolved the people may establish a new legislative for their safety, but doing it too late is useless; he then adds that legislatures or princes that act against their trust dissolve government by violating property.
is all one as if there were no laws; and a government without laws is, I suppose, a mystery in politics, unconceivable to human capacity, and inconsistent with human society. Sect. 220. In these and the like cases, when the government is dissolved, the people are at liberty to provide for themselves, by erecting a new legislative, differing from the other, by the change of persons, or form, or both, as they shall fi…