John Adams, the Statesman of the American Revolution: An Address Before the ...
John Adams, the Statesman of the American Revolution: An Address Before the ...
Mellen Chamberlain, Webster Historical Society (Boston, Mass.)
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These objections relate to section S, respecting the allowance of bail, and section 9, which relates to escheat and forfeitures. To the sections which declare general rights — the colonial Magna Charta — no objections were made, and they consequently retained the political significance which inheres in all unchallenged claims of right. Mn 1698, when the General Court was asked to pass laws enforcing the Acts of Trade, even the conservative councillors insisted " that they were too much cramped ...in their liberties already, and they would be great fools to abridge, by law of their own, the little that was left them." Hildreth, ii. 202. This spirit became hereditary. John Adams has said, " These acts never had been executed, and there never had been a time when they would have been, or could have been, obeyed." Letter to Tudor, March 29, 1818, Novanglus, 245. In 1728, when Governor Burnett, under royal insti*uctions insisted that the General Court should fix by law the governor's salary, instead of leaving it to depend upon the temper of that body from year to year, they persistently refused, *' because it is an untrodden path, which neither we nor our predecessors have gone in ; .
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