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https://www.nh.gov/glance/bill-of-rights.htm
[Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community,
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and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted,
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and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government.
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The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.

June 2, 1784