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- Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their spirits; it suppresses…
- I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to,…
- The king is as much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are bound to yield…
- Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
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