In this book we are concerned with finding out when and why people withdraw the surrender to government of their power to kill and coerce. In a developed polity the right of government and citizens to do various things is asserted and acknowledged. In every polity the power to do things requires assertion but not recognition. Men have always had the power to use violence against government governments have always had the power to use violence against citizens. The question is not as to the power but as to the reasons people decide to exercise it. When revolution occurs, it is not people who must conform to the demands of governments but governments that must conform to the demands of people.