Art 10th Government being instituted for the common benefit, pro-
tection, and security, of the whole community, and not for
the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or
class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are
perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all
other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and
of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new govern-
ment. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary pow-
er, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of
the good and happiness of mankind.
New Hampshire State Constitution