إن فكرة سلطة الشعب وحقه في إقامة الحكومة تفترض في كل فرد واجبَ طاعة الحكومة القائمة.

“The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.”George Washington — Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States (1810)