All 7 Uses
allegiance
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Resistance to Civil Government
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- All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.†
allegiance = loyalty
- I have heard some of my townsmen say, "I should like to have them order me out to help put down an insurrection of the slaves, or to march to Mexico—see if I would go"; and yet these very men have each, directly by their allegiance, and so indirectly, at least, by their money, furnished a substitute.†
- Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform.†
- When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned from office, then the revolution is accomplished.†
- No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is endangered, or until I am bent solely on building up an estate at home by peaceful enterprise, I can afford to refuse allegiance to Massachusetts, and her right to my property and life.†
- I simply wish to refuse allegiance to the State, to withdraw and stand aloof from it effectually.
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- I do not care to trace the course of my dollar, if I could, till it buys a man or a musket to shoot one with—the dollar is innocent—but I am concerned to trace the effects of my allegiance.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(allegiance) loyalty to a person, group, or cause
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)