Dissertation on the first principles of government

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

their proper or distinct places, and never to suffer the one {o usurp the place of the other. À republic, properly understood, is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.