Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or privet interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.

John Adams
1776