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7
C
Of Rebellion
-secuting it in this manner is an act not only
blameless merely but at any rate meritorious, perhaps an act of the most heroic-virtue. If
the complaint be not only all grounded but not believed
to be well grounded even by those who prosecute it
in this manner there and then only is it an
act of wickedness: then and but then only
is it morally as well as politically speaking as bad as Treason: and then
too for the reason that has been given, it is as
bad again as Treason.
In a few cases though in but a few it will
happen that without any real belief belief, and almost
without any pretence complaint, of mismanagement, or want of title one or a
few of the most consent of the people, from through motives
of ambition and from a spirit of adventure
will conspire by a sudden stroke in which few are concerned to seat themselves in the place
of the reigning sovereign. But this case is by
many degrees the most rare. When In the instances where it does occur
the complexion of it is already seen.
This being the case
The case of a defection where a part of the
people without any view of obtaining dominion
over the rest or of instituting any offensive attack
against the sovereign withdraw themselves from his
obedience, purposing to + + But it comes to offensive war. maintaining only that sort of hostility which is
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