The Nature And Form of the American Government Founded in the Christian Religion
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Irreconcilable, indeed ! You may accommodate it is commenda- ble and be " all things to all men ;*" but principles can never be compromised. History attests the severity of this truth. The ruffian reign of the Norman ; the subtle and contentious dominion of the Plantagenets ; the more subtle and not Palgrave's History of the Anglo-Saxons, p. 70. Founded in the Christian Religion. 33 less cruel government of the Tudors ; the crafty dynasty of the Stuarts, could not submerge the buoyant energy of... a simple and constant-minded race of men. Whence came that energy ? Much, to> be sure, is inherent in the race itself. But without such ancient institutions and def- inite laws, as those which ennobled that people, the battle would have been to the strong. Those institutions were founded on an obedience to divine law, and order abided with them even in the midst of rev- olution. It was by the peaceful revolu- tion of 1688, when the representatives of all England, in congress assembled, called the nation as it were to order, and pro- ceeded in due form of law and according to precedent, that the liberties and peace of Great Britain were rescued and made sure.
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