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Barclay contra Monarchom.1.iii.c.

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Which in English runs thus: Sect.237.What then, can there no case happen wherein the people may of right, and by their own authority, help themselves, take arms, and set upon their king, imperiously domineering over them?
None at all, whilst he remains a king.

Honour the king, and he that resists the power, resists the ordinance of God; are divine oracles that will never permit it, The people therefore can never come by a power over him, unless he does something that makes him cease to be a king: for then he divests himself of his crown and dignity, and returns to the state of a private man, and the people become free and superior, the power which they had in the interregnum, before they crowned him king, devolving to them again.

But there are but few miscarriages which bring the matter to this state.

After considering it well on all sides, I can find but two.


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