HKB
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Often appears with: political legitimacy and consent · passive obedience · natural law and higher law · locke trustee judgment · justice as a virtue · impossibility of divine excuses
Usually: argument (1) · injustice endured (1) · indignation (1) · skepticism (1)
“those who by force break through, and by force justify the violation of them, are truly and properly rebels.” John Adams, Novanglus, and Massachusettensis · insight
Adams continues with Locke’s view that people should judge when governors act contrary to trust, warns against passive obedience, and uses this to dismiss pro-government New York and Boston writers.
returned to again, as soon as the winds, weather, and other circumstances would let him." This chiefly takes place with respect to kings, whose power is limited by fundamental laws. If it is objected, that the people being ignorant, and always discontented, to lay the foundation of government, in the unsteady opinion and the uncertain humour of the people, is to expose it to certain ruin; the same author will answer…