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Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

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last edited by BillSeitz on Mar 21, 2008 8:30 am

maybe the next war-inducing resource after ?

[Hydraulic Empire] - where control of water drives the structure of government. Governments were extremely centralized, with no trace of an independent aristocracy - this is completely different to the decentralized which existed in medieval Europe. Though tribal societies had structures that were usually personal in nature, exercised by a patriarch over a tribal group related by various degrees of kinship. With hydraulic hierarchies, an impersonal government as a permanent institution was established. Popular revolution was impossible: a dynasty may die out or be overthrown by force, but the new regime () would differ very little from the old one.

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