ll in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative, when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them(365). Locke explains this act by the legislature to be one of bringing the people into a slavish condition and that the people are to rid themselves of those who invade their sacred law of preservation. This power of the people can never take place until the government is dispelled because within the government itself, however, the legislature always stands supreme. When speaking of conquest Locke does not feel that it leads to the creation of new government in the conquered lands. He also states that an unjust conqueror will never have the right to rule the conquered. Unjust conquest is always unjust in Locke's model, whether by petty thief or a despot. But when the war is lawful, the conqueror obtains power of the conquered. Those who have helped him conquer, he does not gain control over because those that help the conqueror conquer cannot suffer from having given their aid; rather, they should benefit from it. Also, The conqueror only gets power over the government that waged the war, not the entire populace, unless the populace explicitly sanctioned its government's unjust war. Secondly, I say then the conqueror gets no power but only over those, who have actually assisted, concurred or consented to that unjust force, that is used against him.(367) Finally, the conqueror obtains a power over those he overcomes in a just war that Locke refers to as despotical. This means that he who has conquered has an absolute power over those who relinquished their lives by waging in war. But Locke states that the conqueror does not have right to their possessions for the family of the conquered may share them. Locke describes usurpation as a domestic conquest in which the usurper is always unjust. He defines usurpation as, where one is got into the possession of what another has right to(370). ...
