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646. AUTHORITY, Usurpation of.—
Necessities which dissolve a government do
not convey its authority to an oligarchy or a
monarchy. They throw back into the hands
of the people the powers they had delegated,
and leave them as individuals to shift for
themselves.—
Notes on Virginia. Washington ed. viii, 369.
Ford ed., iii, 233.
(1782)
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