Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what John Locke said
ambition How much to take on and how hard to push: superlinear returns to effort, focus, slack time, and procrastination.
Whensoever therefore the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society; and either by ambition, fear, folly or corruption, endeavour to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other, an absolute power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the people; by this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put into their hands for quite contrary ends, and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty
Where this was said
↗Second Treatise of Government (1690)gutenberg.org
All 25 korrents from this piecethis one is 21st
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