 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1877 - 558 pages
...several Charters, all the inhabitants are " entitled to life, liberty, and property," and then announces "that the foundation of English liberty and of all...people to participate in their legislative council'' 8 Here was a claim of popular rights as a first principle of government. Proceeding from a Congress... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - United States - 1877 - 362 pages
...welfare, and this Congress had put forth a " Declaration of Rights," affirming, among other things, that " the foundation of English liberty and of all...people to participate in their legislative council ; " in the fact that a second Continental Congress ' had now been in session for fourteen months, had... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - Fourth of July celebrations - 1877 - 894 pages
...declaration of rights, claiming that the foundation of English liberty and of all free governments is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council, and that, as they were not, and from various causes could not be represented in the British Parliameut,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1877 - 562 pages
...several Charters, all the inhabitants are " entitled to life, liberty, and property," and then announces "that the foundation of English liberty and of all free government is a rirjht in the people to participate in their legislative council." 8 Here was a claim of popular rights... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1879 - 634 pages
...declared to be the foundation of English liberty and of all free government. As the colonists were not represented, and from their local and other circumstances,...properly be represented in the British Parliament, they were entitled to a free and exclusive power of taxation in their several provincial legislatures, where... | |
 | Egerton Ryerson - American Confederate voluntary exiles - 1880 - 556 pages
...emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are, entitled to the exercise...English liberty and of all free government is a right in their people to participate in their Legislative Council; and as the English colonists are not represented,... | |
 | Walter Raleigh Houghton - Political parties - 1882 - 596 pages
...such of them as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy. Resoived, 4. That the foundation of English liberty, and of all...in their legislative council ; and as the English colonies are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances, can not properly be represented,... | |
 | Walter Raleigh Houghton - Political parties - 1882 - 586 pages
...exercise and enjoy. Resolred, 4. That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, in a right in the people to participate in their legislative council; and as the English colonies are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances, can not properly be represented,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - Fourth of July celebrations - 1882 - 1040 pages
...declaration of rights, claiming that the foundation of English liberty and of all free governments is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council, and that, as they were not, and from various causes could not be represented in the British Parliament,... | |
 | Mellen Chamberlain - United States - 1884 - 94 pages
...result. It was drawn by John Adams, and carried mainly by his influence, and reads as follows : — "That the foundation of English liberty, and of all...and from their local and other circumstances cannot be properly represented in the British Parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power... | |
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That the foundation of English Liberty, and of all free Government, is a right in the people to participate in their Legislative Council... 
