DECLARATION OF RIGHTS.
I.
Government has no rights; it is a delegation from several individuals for the purpose of securing their own. It is therefore just, only so far as it exists by their consent, useful only so far as it operates to their well-being.
II.
If these individuals think that the form of government which they or their forefathers constituted is ill adapted to produce their happiness, they have a right to change it.
III.
Government is devised for the security of Rights. The rights of man are liberty, and an equal participation of the commonage of Nature.
IV.
As the benefit of the governed is, or ought to be, the origin of government, no men can have any authority that does not expressly emanate from their will.