Assertion: monarchy's people | /r/HasAspect | the right
Facets:
value: basically
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The Swedes traditionally elected a king from a favored dynasty at the Stones of Mora, and the people had the right to elect the king as well as to depose him.
text: This did not entirely rule out some sort of original agreement with the people; but as the Dutch jurist Hugo Grotius pointed out, once such an agreement was made, the people surrendered their sovereignty and had no right to reclaim it.
text: Of course, ‘parliament’ itself is to some extent a shorthand expression, since it was not a thing but a meeting place; power was held not by ‘parliament’ but by the people who had the right to attend it (see above, Chapter 2).
text: The idea behind a republic is ‘we the people’, basically that the people would have the right to govern themselves.
text: He also wrote that if the government is unjust the people have the right to overthrow it, a doctrine that was invoked during the American Revolution.
text: He also wrote that if the government is unjust the people have the right to overthrow it.