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"The question of dethroning [...] will always be, as it has always been, an extraordinary question of the state, and wholly out of the law; a question [...] of dispositions, and of means, and of probable consequences, rather than of positive rights. [...] The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end, and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable. It is not a single act, or a single event, which determines it. Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past." (30)
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