§. 192. By the second, the inhabitants of any country, who are descended and
derive a title to their estates from those who are subdued, and had a
government forced upon them, against their free consents, retain a right to the
possession of their ancestors, though they consent not freely to the
government, whose hard conditions were, by force, imposed on the possessors of
that country. For the first conqueror never having had a title to the land of
that country, the people, who are the descendants of, or claim under those who
were forced to submit to the yoke of a government by constraint, have always a
right to shake it off, and free themselves from the usurpation or tyranny the
sword hath brought in upon them, till their rulers put them under such a frame
of government as they willingly and of choice consent to (which they can never
be supposed to do, till either they are put in a full state of liberty to
choose their government and governors, or at least till they have such standing
laws to which they have, by themselves or their representatives, given their
free consent, and also till they are allowed their due property, which is so to
be proprietors of what they have that nobody can take away any part of it
without their own consent, without which, men under any government are not in
the state of free men, but are direct slaves under the force of war). And who
doubts but the Grecian Christians, descendants of the ancient possessors of
that country, may justly cast off the Turkish yoke they have so long groaned
under, whenever they have a power to do it?
