 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1914 - 1000 pàgines
...the other from obligation." A Connecticut preacher, early in the seventeenth century, was teaching that : " The choice of public magistrates belongs unto the people, by God's own allowance. They who have the power to appoint officers and magistrates, it is in their power, also, to set the... | |
 | George Larkin Clark - 1914 - 808 pàgines
...limitations of the power and place unto which they call them. The reasons are as follows : I. Because the foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people. 2. Because by a free choice the people will be more ready to yield obedience. 3. Because of the duty... | |
 | New Haven Colony Historical Society - 1914 - 396 pàgines
..."doctrine" in the discourse, as Henry Wolcott's cipher was deciphered by Dr. Trumbull, was three-fold: "1. That the choice of public magistrates belongs unto the people by God's allowance; 2. The privilege of election which belongs unto the people, therefore, must not be exercised... | |
 | 1915 - 340 pàgines
...Winthrop : he was not wholly out of sympathy with Anne Hutchinson; and he defended the proposition that " the foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people," whereas Winthrop maintained that the best part of the people " is always the least, and of that best... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn - 1916 - 422 pàgines
...constitution known to history that created a government," he reflected his political democratic gospel that "the foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people." According to this democratic principle, government is not to be looked upon as an end in itself. Government... | |
 | Elias Benjamin Sanford - 1916 - 556 pàgines
...and place unto which they call them." He gave two reasons for these assertions, — first "Because the foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people,,, second "Because by a free choice the hearts of the people will be more inclined to the love of the... | |
 | 1917 - 622 pàgines
...General Court of Connecticut on the 31st day of May, 1638, in which he laid down the doctrine: "First: That the choice of public magistrates belongs unto the people, by God's own allowance. Second: The privilege of election which belongs to the people, therefore must not be exercised according... | |
 | Charles Lemuel Thompson - 1917 - 334 pàgines
...very first meeting of the general court of the new colony he preached a sermon in which he said, " The foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people." That pregnant sentence had in it the seeds of all free government. In it is the doctrine which one hundred... | |
 | Samuel Hart - 1917 - 572 pàgines
...Democrat but he was the father of the Constitution of the United States. Later on in his sermon he says: "The foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people," and his final exhortation is: "As God has given us liberty let us take it." The origin of the Hooker... | |
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They who have power to appoint officers and magistrates, it is in their power, also, to set the bounds and limitations of the... 
