§. 197. As conquest may be called a foreign usurpation, so usurpation is a
kind of domestic conquest, with this difference — that an usurper can
never have right on his side, it being no usurpation but where one is got into
the possession of what another has right to. This, so far as it is usurpation,
is a change only of persons, but not of the forms and rules of the government;
for if the usurper extend his power beyond what, of right, belonged to the
lawful princes or governors of the commonwealth, it is tyranny added to
usurpation.
