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1826. May 6
Penal CodeCh. XIII. Off. affg Exerc. of Sov.
§. 1 Defensive Rebellion
Expositive
Art 1. Defensive rebellion is where, with or
without the intervention of the judicial authority,
the sovereign power in the exercise of its functions,
being or supposed to be in the act or determination to apply on
a certain occasion physical force, constraint
or restraint to the person or property of a certain
individual or aggregate of individuals,
– a person – the rebel – without intention of usurpation
or transference concurs in the endeavour,
by play resistance to prevent the execution of such
design on the part of the legislature.
Art 2. Instructional and expositive.
The observations which apply as per
section one § 1. to offensive rebellion will here
apply with little variation to defensive. In
regard to the quantity of evil, what difference there
is, is in this case on the side of a diminution:
By Of on the part of no other individual So long as the government
abstains from the exercise application of the apprehended
force, will there be either danger or alarm, on
the score either of person or property.
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