The Right to Revolt

A constitution is a social contract. It is a product conceived from the very idea that man, as a social animal, must aggregate in order to perpetuate their common interest and to protect them from any unwanted evil. As men submit to the order of the social contract, he thereby loses his natural liberty and accordingly, enjoys the civil liberty bestowed upon by the fundamental law of the land. Among other things, the contract stipulates the framework of the government, the liberty of every citizen and the sovereign power of those who constitute the very life of the contract itself.

When the government becomes tyrannical, when free men are utterly enslaved, or when rights have become cold whispers, the sovereign is free to collectively abandon the contract. It is inherent upon every sovereign to possess the right to revolt; it can only be exercised where there is outright failure, on those hands the reigns of the government is for the time being, to observe the contract with reverence and sanctity. While the living has the privilege to observe the laws of the dead, it has no obligation to preserve it, for they possess an equal right to the generation that preceded it.