Dissertation on the first principles of government

16. Rights of Man , part 1, Conclusion ; et Dissertations on Government etc, 1786 : The sovereignty of a despotic monarch assumes the power of making wrong right, or right wrong, as he pleases or as it suits him. Tlie sovereignty in a republic is exercised to keep right and wrong in

their proper or distinct places, and ne ver to suffer tbe onc to usurp the place of the other. A republic, properly understood, is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.