 | William Potts - 1904 - 328 pàgines
...Hooker laid down three leading doctrines, upon which that Constitution was subsequently based : " 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... | |
 | William Henry Gocher - 1904 - 410 pàgines
...much to make possible our American democracy. — Elliott's History of New England. Reasons: Because the foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people. Because by a free choice, the hearts of the people will be more inclined to the love of the persons... | |
 | Walter Seth Logan - 1904 - 40 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 he ends with the exhortation: "As God has given us liberty let us take it." This was a hundred... | |
 | Adelaide Louise Rouse - 1904 - 508 pàgines
...opposed to a measure intended to increase the political weight of the clergy and maintained that the 411 foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people. 19 People of teveral nations. The French were upon the eastern border, the Dutch upon the western,... | |
 | David Gregg, Sidney Howard Carney (Jr) - 1904 - 498 pàgines
...Connecticut. It was he who gave utterance to another advanced Americanprinciple, viz., this principle : — " The foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the governed." Of course he did not in this ignore God as the source of all authority : he was speaking... | |
 | Elroy McKendree Avery - 1905 - 536 pàgines
...In this correspondence, we plainly see the uncompromising democracy of the Hartford pastor who urged that "the foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people." On the other hand, the Massachusetts governor insisted that "the best part is always the least, and... | |
 | William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Francis Trevelyan Miller - 1905 - 1120 pàgines
...power also to set the bounds and limitations of the power and place unto which they call them, because the foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people. This is surely a clear statement of principles which we all now believe to be essential; and the full... | |
 | James Oscar Pierce - 1906 - 352 pàgines
...magistrates may set the bounds and limits of their authority, were supported by the reason, first of all, that the foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people, whereby the preacher was led to exhort his hearers to be persuaded, "as God hath given us liberty,... | |
 | Edgar Laing Heermance - 1906 - 308 pàgines
...opening session of the Court, in 1638, Mr. Hooker preached a powerful sermon in which he maintained : "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... | |
 | Edward Waterman Townsend - 1906 - 332 pàgines
...thousands," etc., "and officers among your tribes." With this as his authority, he proceeded to argue 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... | |
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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... 
