for since it can never be supposed to be the will of the society, that the legislative should have a power to destroy that which every one designs to secure, by entering into society, and for which the people submitted themselves to legislators of their own making; whenever the legislators endeavour 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.
herria berorrek hautaturiko legegileen mende jartzen bada, babes horregatik baita. Beraz, legegileek herriaren jabetza deuseztatu edo bereganatzen duten bakoitzean, edo botere arbitrario baten bidez esklabo bihurtzen saiatzean, beraien herriarekiko guda egoeran ezarriko dituzte euren buruak; hortaz, herria libre da obeditzen jarraitzeko ala ez, eta babes daiteke Jainkoak guda eta biolentziaren aurka eman dion aterpean.