In such cases the rulers, exercising a power that the people
never put into their hands,. . . .do what they have no right
to do. And when the people as a whole (or any individual
man) are deprived of their right or are subject to an exercise
of power without right, and have no appeal on earth, then
they are free to appeal to heaven if they judge the issue to
be important enough for that. And therefore, although •the
constitution of the society in question doesn’t give the people
any superior power to act as judge, making and enforcing
a decision in the case, they have, by •a law antecedent and
to (and outranking) all positive laws of men, reserved to
themselves a final decision.