A Colloquy On the Necessity of Clergy in Government Written About 1799
A Colloquy On the Necessity of Clergy in Government Written About 1799
Day Thomas
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Then from its ashes will spring up a system of principles consistent with the "gen- uine rights of freemen. " Grenville Pray, Sir, what kind of system would that be? What kind of constitution do you want? Belmont I want one completely destitute of those non- sensical aristocratic checks and balances which serve only to clog the operations of government: 28 Instead of one which speaks only of the rights of rulers and tyrants, I want one which recog- nises not only the rights but the power of the... "sovereign people" one similar to the old con- federation or to some of those constitutions which were form'd for the French republic between the downfall of Monarchy and the establishment of consular despotism. Grenville You could not have produc'd an example which tends more directly to (establish the truth of) corroborate my opinion. Those constitutions were (certainly the most) beautiful theories (the world has ever seen) ; but they were no more fit for the government of that nation than ships of paper for the purpose of merchandise.
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