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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

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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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