A “constitution” is a system of principles, rules and laws that underpin a political system, which creates and defines what powers different political institutions have and how they relate to each other. Alexander Hamilton, "The Farmer Refuted" (February 23, 1775), The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, I:88. Revolution usually also suggests that the sovereign has lost lawgiver status due to acting contrary to natural law. In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes argued that, since they have consented to invest their sovereign with the right of rulership, monarchical subjects can only change rulers with the original sovereign's permission.

Stated throughout history in one form or another, the belief in this right has been used to justify various revolutions, including the American Revolution, French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, and the Iranian Revolution. The right of revolution was expounded by the Monarchomachs in the context of the French Wars of Religion, and by Huguenots thinkers who legitimized tyrannicides. Some philosophers argue that it is not only the right of a people to overthrow an oppressive government but also their duty to do so.However, Locke was not only a proponent of fighting tyranny through civil disobedience of unjust laws. Clause 61, which appears to be what the Facebook post refers to when it says “Article 61”, is not one of the clauses remaining in effect today. In other writings, he used the analogy of a robber to explain why tyrannical infringement on property makes for unjust law: "Should a robber break into my house, and, with a dagger at my throat, make me seal deeds to convey my estate to him, would this give him any title? The right to revolution played a large part in the writings of the American revolutionaries in the run up to the American Revolution. Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition.

In fact they codified it in their new constitutions [50] and even today 35 constitutions of American states have the same or similar provisions on the right of revolution as in the preamble of the American Declaration of Independence. but then, I went on to read his extended title: An Historical and hypothetical survey of revolution, civil and sedition. Article 11: Any act directed against a person, apart from the cases and without the forms determined by law, is arbitrary and tyrannical; if attempt is made to execute such act by force, the person who is the object thereof has the right to resist it by force. In the last chapter of The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli exhorts the Medici family to take up violent insurrection "to liberate Italy from the barbarians". Alternatively, the work is better associated with the revolutionary conspiracies that swirled around what would come to be known as the Rye House Plot.Like in a reality version of Glee, students from different cultural backgrounds and genders are brought together. Certain theories of the right of revolution impose significant preconditions on its exercise, sometimes limiting its invocation to the most dire circumstances. But, sir, while a State has no power under the Constitution conferred upon it, to secede from the Federal Government or from the Union, each State has the right of revolution, which all admit. S. began to do so more frequently in the Caribbean Basin countries, including the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti, Honduras—and Cuba. Pauline Maier, From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765–1776 (Alfred A.