QUOTATION FROM JOHN LOCKE

...whenever the legislators endeavour to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they the officials of government put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided for all men against force and violence. Whensoever, therefore, the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly, or corruption, endeavour to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other, an absolute power over the lives, liberties and estates of the people, by this breach of trust THEY (the government officials) FORFEIT THE POWER THE PEOPLE HAD PUT INTO THEIR HANDS...and it devolves to the people, who have a right to resume their original liberty, and...provide for their own safety and security.

John Locke wrote this in his Second Essay Concerning Civil Government.John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher. Locke is considered the first of the British empiricists, but is equally important to social contract theory. His ideas had enormous influence on the development of epistemology and political philosophy, and he is widely regarded as one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers, classical republicans, and contributors to liberal theory.

Question: Does any of this describe the activities of our current Administration and the United States Congress??