Revolution is the ultimate check on government power. It also incredibly dangerous.
When a government violates rather than protects the equal, individual natural rights of citizens, the people may peacefully alter their government by adopting new laws or even a new constitution.
When no peaceful remedies for government injustice are possible, the people have a natural right to abolish their government—by violent revolution, if necessary—and replace it with a new and more wisely-designed government.
Government has only the few powers that We The People grant to it through our constitution. To keep government from exercising powers the people never granted, citizens can remind elected representatives now and then that the people retain the natural right to alter their government or to abolish it through revolution.
At the same time, citizens should always understand that revolution is dangerous. When an entire nation dissolves their own government and ignores the laws that government created, there is no guarantee that the rule of law, ordered liberty, and justice will follow.
Sometimes, as in the example of the French Revolution, revolution can become almost impossible to stop. Even after a bad government has been removed by revolution, revolutionaries will often direct their violence at anyone who attempts to establish some form of governance, social order, or law, and the transformation of revolution into tyranny is not only possible, it is likely.
Revolution, therefore, is the ultimate check on government power; it also incredibly dangerous and should be an option of last resort against a tyrannical government.
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