Article 10. Right of Revolution: Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the whole community and not for the interest and emoluments 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 ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to, reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of non-resistence against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.

— New Hampshire Bill of Rights, 1784