Address of John Whipple to the People of Rhode Island On the Approaching Elect
Address of John Whipple to the People of Rhode Island On the Approaching Elect
John Whipple
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In the case under consideration, a portion of the people as- sumed upon themselves the task of changing our whole form of government of converting a strictly representative govern- ment, under which the people are governed by fixed and stable laws, the result of the deliberation of men under oath, into a pure Democracy without any rule but the will and passions of the multitude. They proceeded, in the face of the plainest laws, to decide that a new form of government was necessary to settle the... question who the legal people should be what kind of government they should hereafter live under and to carry that government into effect by force of arms. They constituted themselves the judges in their own case to make their own law to decide their own rules of proceeding behind the back of the other party to pronounce judgment against them without a hearing and then proceeded to enforce the ex- ecution of them at the point of the bayonet ! Did the minority ever assent to such a government as this?
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