an entity that was in suspense while civil government was in effect but stood ready to reassert itself on the appropriate occasion.7 John Locke’s version is better known. Near the end of the Two Treatises, Locke wrote that “the people are at liberty to provide for themselves, by erecting a new legislative, differing from the other, by the change of persons, or form, or both, as they shall find it most for their safety and good.”8 It was Locke’s ideas that influenced those phrases in the American Declaration of Independence referring to the right of the people “to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles *718 and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.”9