g. Lon Fuller) would require that for something to count as a law, it must adhere to basic principles of legality, some of which would include basic principles of morality. He believed that "if the ruler or regent, as the organ of the supreme power, proceeds in violation of the laws, as in imposing taxes, recruiting soldiers, and so on, contrary to the law of equality in the distribution of the political burdens, the subject may oppose complaints and objections ( gravamina) to this injustice, but not active resistance. We have fact checked false claims about its supposed powers a number of times before—including claims it could be used to “seize” Edinburgh Castle and that it exempts you from paying council tax.

But these understandings about the right of revolution on the eve of the American Revolution rested on a traditional model of government.According to the historian Tacitus, "The throng applauded from various motives, some pointing to the marks of the lash, others to their grey locks, and most of them to their threadbare garments and naked limbs. As America annexed more overseas territories for its empire, it began to intervene frequently in other countries’ governments—particularly those in its backyard. Eisenhower was probably the last president who believed that you could do these things and nobody would ever find out. Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by rule of law. Revolution usually also suggests that the sovereign has lost lawgiver status due to acting contrary to natural law.

For Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration was the last-ditch effort of an oppressed people—the position in which many Americans saw themselves in 1776. He developed the concept in his Two Treatises of Government, especially the last two chapters, "Of Tyranny" and "Of the Dissolution of Government". In Two Treatises of Government, Locke discusses the pro-monarchy philosopher William Barclay's notions about the preconditions for the right of revolution against a monarch: "First. Gibbon says that they "asserted the natural rights of men, but they asserted those rights with the most savage cruelty".All Greek constitutions since the Greek Revolution have contained a right to resist in their concluding article. American revolutionaries accused George III of breaching his implied duty of protection under that contract, thereby releasing the people in the colonies from their allegiance. Like in a reality version of Glee, students from different cultural backgrounds and genders are brought together. Over 50 were in Latin America (which also had 50 in the first half of the century); over 30 in Asia; over 20 in Africa; and 5 in Europe. Initially, almost everyone is skeptical about the feasibility and sense of the project, but along the way it turns out these meetings serve an additional purpose: as a safe space in which everyone can share their deepest fears, emotions and concerns.

This action precipitated the Congo Crisis (1960–1965), a period in which military leader Mobutu Sese Seko consolidated power in the country. In 1965, the CIA supported Mobutu’s coup to take over the Republic of the Congo in the name of preventing the spread of communism. Whenever the ends of government are perverted, 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. Other state constitutions adopted different versions of this right to "alter or abolish" government that did not sound like the traditional right of revolution.The faith of the people of Texas stands pledged to the preservation of a republican form of government, and, subject to this limitation only, they have at all times the inalienable right to alter, reform or abolish their government in such manner as they may think expedient. In some cases, a rebellion will cause a government to admit that some faction of it exceeded its authority. Whenever the Legislators endeavor to take away, and destroy the Property of the People, or to reduce them to Slavery under Arbitrary Power, they put themselves into a state of War with the People, who are thereupon absolved from any farther Obedience, and are left to the common Refuge, which God hath provided for all Men, against Force and Violence.

Article 12: Those who incite, dispatch, sign, or execute arbitrary acts, or cause them to be executed, are guilty and must be punished. That model posited the existence of a hypothetical bargain struck in the mists of antiquity between a king and a people. Moreover, Kant believed that any "forcible compulsion of [the dethronement of a monarch], on the part of the people, cannot be justified under the pretext of a right of necessity ( casus necessitatis)".

Thomas Paine's political tract Common Sense used the concept as an argument for rejection of the British monarchy and separation from the British Empire, as opposed to merely self-government within it. Clause 61, which appears to be what the Facebook post refers to when it says “Article 61”, is not one of the clauses remaining in effect today. Randy Barnett, The Rights Retained by the People, The History and Meaning of the Ninth Amendment, George Mason University Press, 1989), p. S. withdrew its military from the country with the caveat that it would still intervene militarily to protect American interests in the future.