Second Treatise of Government: Chapter XVII

Written by johnlocke | Published 2022/07/07
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TLDRSect. 197. AS conquest may be called a foreign usurpation, so usurpation is a kind of domestic conquest, with this difference, that an usurper can never have right on his side, it being no usurpation, but where one is got into the possession of what another has right to. This, so far as it is usurpation, is a change only of persons, but not of the forms and rules of the government: for if the usurper extend his power beyond what of right belonged to the lawful princes, or governors of the commonwealth, it is tyranny added to usurpation.via the TL;DR App

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Written by johnlocke | English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers
Published by HackerNoon on 2022/07/07