Revolution requires an accumulating visible train of abuses

Evidence

Secondly, I answer, such revolutions happen not upon every little mismanagement in public affairs. Great mistakes in the ruling part, many wrong and inconvenient laws, and all the slips of human frailty, will be born by the people without mutiny or murmur. But if a long train of abuses, prevarications and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people, and they cannot but feel what they lie under, and see whither they are going; it is not to be wondered, that they should then rouze themselves, and endeavour to put the rule into such hands which may secure to them the ends for which government was at first erected; and without which, ancient names, and specious forms, are so far from being better, that they are much worse, than the state of nature, or pure anarchy; the inconveniencies being all as great and as near, but the remedy farther off and more difficult. — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 282

Categorization

• XREF: The famous ‘long train of abuses’ phrase that the Declaration of Independence echoes verbatim — a direct doctrinal connection for the course. — connects to: Revolution becomes likely when prolonged improvement is abruptly reversed — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4352; Continuous observation of law in action is needed to trigger reform. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 24

Broader Connections

• Revolution becomes likely when prolonged improvement is abruptly reversed #qualifies (0.85) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4352