...lawful assembly of any people in the world, if they had not that power iu. themselves." Sec. 33 — " If any man ask, how nations come to have the power...another, the question ought not to be, how a nation came to be free, but how man comes to haca dominion over it ; for till the right of dominion be proved...

...not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard. I solicit no man's praise, I fear no man's censure. The liberty of a people is the gift of God and Nature. Neither God nor the world will judge us by our profession, but by our practices." In the great transformation...

...lawful assembly of any people in the world, if they had not that power in themselves. Section XXXIII. If any man ask how nations come to have the power...nation can come to be free but how a man comes to have dominion over it; for till the right of dominion be proved and justified, liberty subsists as arising...

...Conquer'd Country, which this is not." The assembly resolves that instructions are not laws, and that "the liberty of a people is the gift of God and Nature." Burnet responds by proroguing the government. Afterwards he soliloquizes, "Hard is my fate, if I comply...

...tyrannus omnium pessimus, leading the people to all manner of ill, and in consequence to destruction. B Would American rights & interests have been safe...constituted? It has been said that if a Nati. Govt. 1 answer, that liberty being only an exemption from the dominion of another, the question ought not...