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1613. CONQUEST, Submission to.—

The
government of a nation may be usurped by the
forcible intrusion of an individual into the
throne. But to conquer its will, so as to rest
the right on that, the only legitimate basis,
requires long acquiescence and cessation of all
opposition.—
To——. Washington ed. vii, 413.
(M. 1825)