5o6 On the Foundation of Civil Government, 



XXIX. Wherever therefore any political go- 

 vernment is not conftituted and exercifed in con- 

 formity to this grand maxim, *' that all power is 

 derived from the people," and the evident con- 

 fequences deducible from that maxim — the go- 

 verned are injured ; and deprived of rights, 

 which may be proved to belong to them. So 

 that the people in every nation upon earth, may 

 juftly demand that the government under which 

 they live, be alte-red in conformity to that max- 

 im, wherever it is not fo already. 



XXX. But it is univerfally allowed, that 

 wherever a right exifts, there exifts alfo concomi- 

 tantly, a right to the means of obtaining it ; 

 elfe the right itfelf is nugatory. So that if 

 any right belonging to the people, fhould be 

 forcibly infringed, or withholden from them by 

 the governors of any community, after repeated 

 applications for redrefs in a peaceable way, the 

 former have a right forcibly to obtain it. 



XXXI. Alfo from Prop. VI. and XXI. it 

 may be deduced univerfally that whenever any 

 alteration in the form of government, or change 

 in the ofRcers of government appears eligi- 

 ble to the majority of the people, they have 

 a right to infift on fuch alteration or change, 

 whether the officers before appointed were tem- 

 porary or hereditary. For, whether the office 

 itfelf, or the officers, anfwer the purpofe of their 

 appointment, mult be decided either by the 



governors 



