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6 C Of Rebellion

-rous , selfish or public spirited as it may happen :
but those of the many who follow can never be otherwise
than generous and public spirited at least if not laudable . . The ground
of Rebellion is sometimes sincere but indeterminable
disagreement about the title to the sovereignty itself :
while the contest last , both claimants are sovereigns , each with their own party :
he who prevails is stiled from thence forward the sovereign
while the contest lasts there is either no sovereign at all
or both are sovereigns : when it is at an end he
who prevails is thenceforward the sovereign his adherents loyalists ; and the competiter
a pretender or arch-rebel , and his adherents
rebels . In this case while the title is really doubtful
there is properly neither merit nor demerit on either
side . On both sides there is necessarily a deal of misfortune
probably much wickedness and much virtue but necessarily neither wickedness the one nor other .
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At other times the ground of rebellion is on a
complaint of bad of bad government on the part of some of the government
against those whose title to govern , did they
but govern well , is undisputed . It In this case if
the complaint be well grounded and believed so to be be
those who make it , and there be no other means of redress , and it be the prosecution of it
worth while to prosecute it in this manner , the prosecuting

Identifier: | JB/071/195/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	195	Info in main headings field	of rebellion
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	23598
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