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"If the laws of God and man are of no effect, when the magistracy is left at liberty to break them: and if the lusts of those who are too strong for the tribunals of justice, cannot be otherwise restrained than by sedition, tumults and war, those seditions, tumults and wars are justified by the laws of God and man."
Algernon Sidney
Discourses Concerning Government
c 1682
A major influence on the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the American experiment.
