Good morning from Minneapolis where, after a cold weekend, rain is back in the forecast for Tuesday.
Quite early Monday morning it's 4℉; light northerly winds; fair skies; barometer reads Very Dry; and visibility is 10 miles at the airport.
- Up and down temperature trend through next weekend.
- Periods of light snow possible Tuesday & Wednesday, with minor accumulations possible over portions of the forecast area.
—forecast discussion, NWS Twin Cities
A legitimate civil government seeks to preserve its subjects’ life, health, liberty, and property insofar as this is compatible with the public good. Because it does this, it deserves obedience. An illegitimate civil government seeks to systematically violate the natural rights of its subjects. It seeks to make them illegitimate slaves. Because an illegitimate civil government does this, it puts itself in a state of nature and a state of war with its subjects. The magistrate or king of such a state violates the law of nature and so makes himself into a dangerous beast of prey who operates on the principle that might makes right, or that the strongest carries it.
—essay on JOHN LOCKE (b. 1632, d. 1704), via the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/
Wherever Law ends,
Tyranny begins
