Usurpation
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The Rights of War and Peace
Doctrine that illegitimate seizure of power does not extinguish or transfer the lawful ruler's treaty rights.
For acts of usurpation convey not immediately any right beyond that of bare possession.
For the rights of a king, among which his alliances may be reckoned, remain unimpaired, during the temporary loss of his throne.
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The gradual encroachment upon free and limited government through small, seemingly convenient or necessary expansions of power.
Thus the indefinite attributes of a sovereignty of spheres, will gradually usurp and supplant the attributes of the sovereignty of the people.
Usurpation begins with weaving a shroud for free principles by the woof and warp of little conveniences and pretended necessities, and ends by inflicting the slavish quietism of a perfect subordination.