 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1902 - 356 pàgines
...years later, on the banks of the Connecticut, Thomas Hooker, the first American Democrat, proclaimed that " the foundation of authority is laid in the...belongs unto the people, by God's own allowance," that it is the right of the people not only to choose but to limit the power of their rulers, and he... | |
 | Alfred Mathews - 1902 - 384 pàgines
...captains over hundreds, over fifties, over tens," etc. ; and with this as his basis, he pointed out "that the choice of public magistrates belongs unto the people, by God's own allowance ; that the privilege of election, which belongs to the people, must not be exercised according to their... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1902 - 574 pàgines
...A Healing Question. a similar purport was the saying of Thomas Hooker, the founder of Connecticut, that "the foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people." * In the writings of John Robinson, the Pilgrim leader, a like greatness of purpose and thought appears,... | |
 | Alfred Mathews - 1902 - 382 pàgines
...captains over hundreds, over fifties, over tens," etc. ; and with this as his basis, he pointed out "that the choice of public magistrates belongs unto the people, by God's own allowance ; that the privilege of election, which belongs to the people, must not be exercised according to their... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1902 - 424 pàgines
...liberal temper showed itself very plainly in the principles by which they resolved to be governed. "The foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people," he had said, preaching to them from Deuteronomy, i. 13 ("Take you wise men, and understanding, and... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn - 1903 - 432 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... | |
 | 1903 - 430 pàgines
...place unto which they call them." And he gives as the first of the " reasons " for these " doctrines " that " the foundation of authority is laid, in the free consent of the people." Here, then, we have the declaration of Hooker's principles, which was to be embodied in January, 1639,... | |
 | Adelaide Louise Rouse - 1904 - 514 pàgines
...the ministers he was opposed to a measure intended to increase the political weight of the clergy and maintained that the foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people. 19 People of several nations. The French were upon the eastern border, the Dutch upon the western,... | |
 | 1904 - 430 pàgines
...you. Captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, over fifties, over tens, etc. DOCTRINE. I. That the choice of public magistrates belongs unto the people, by God's own allowance. II. The privilege of election, which belongs to the people, therefore must not be exercised according... | |
 | Francis McGee Thompson - 1904 - 732 pàgines
...of the growing power of the other. Mr. Hooker was liberal and democratic in his views, maintaining that the foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people. "John Cotton was aristocratic and autocratic, and declared that democracy was no fit government for... | |
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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... 
