Excerpt from The Judgement of Whole Kingdoms and Nations Concerning the Rights, Power and Prerogative of Kings, and the Rights, Priviledges, and Properties of the People Ti. 4. As it is by Virtue of Compae'rs, Stipulations, Compro mifes and Agreements, that all legal Governments have their Ori ginal and Eftablifliment that various and difiine't Forms obtain in different Countries, and that atitle and Right to exercife Antha rity, and the Method of arriving at it, is provided for and pro cur'd, (0 every Sub et's Allegiance is hifi owmg to the Conflitua tion, and to the Ru er only, in the Force and virtue of what every Member of the political Society is bound unto, by the Terms of the original Pa& and Settlement. Abi'trae'dng from' theconftitu tion, and the Obligations which lays us under, no Man can chal len e a Right of commanding us, nor do we owe him any Dnty of ubje Stion and Obedience. Whofoever he be that, under a' Pre tence of beiiig contiituted Soverei i, does invade and (ubfie'rt the fundamental Laws of the Society, e does thereby, ipfo fago, annul all the legal Right he had to grevern, and abfolves all, who viper. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.