For the first conqueror never having had a title to the
land of that country, the people, who are the descendants of, or claim
under those who were forced to submit to the yoke of a government by
constraint, have always a right to shake it off, and free themselves
from the usurpation or tyranny the sword hath brought in upon them,
till their rulers put them under such a frame of government as they
willingly and of choice consent to (which they can never be supposed
to do, till either they are put in a full state of liberty to choose
their government and governors, or at least till they have such
standing laws to which they have, by themselves or their
representatives, given their free consent, and also till they are
allowed their due property, which is so to be proprietors of what they
have that nobody can take away any part of it without their own
consent, without which, men under any government are not in the
state of free men, but are direct slaves under the force of war).
And who doubts but the Grecian Christians, descendants of the
ancient possessors of that country, may justly cast off the Turkish
yoke they have so long groaned under, whenever they have a power to do
it?
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