One of the odd things about Grotius’s thought is that he – advocate of a rebellious regime – was not very supportive of the right of resistance. Justifying the revolt at the time not only meant legitimizing the new regime he was serving; it also meant ruling out opposition against it. That posed an intricate puzzle; a puzzle Grotius solved by drawing on the theorizing on just revolt of the previous decades. This paper purports to show the connection between Grotius’s thought on just revolt and the intellectual and political environment in which Grotius came of age. It also sets out to show that the solution to the puzzle lies in the element of authority and the particular view taken on the constitutional position of the States in the Low Countries.

格罗蒂乌斯思想的奇怪之处之一是，他是反叛政权的倡导者，对反抗权并不十分支持。为当时的叛乱辩护不仅意味着使他所服务的新政权合法化；这也意味着排除对此的反对。这带来了一个复杂的难题；格罗蒂乌斯（Grotius）提出了一个难题，他依靠了过去几十年的反抗理论。本文旨在证明格罗蒂乌斯的反叛思想与格罗蒂乌斯成年的思想政治环境之间的联系。它还表明，解决这一难题的办法在于权力的要素以及对低地国家的宪法立场采取的特殊看法。