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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
id will impute it to the agony of my heart. It was his purpose not to enter into war with British institutions, or the British parliament, but to treat of the first principles of free government and human rights. Government, such was his argument, which I shall state as nearly as possible in his own words- government is founded, not on force, as was the theory of Hobbes, nor on compact, as was the theory of Locke and the revolution of 1688; nor on property, as had been asserted by Harrington. It springs from the necessities of our nature, and has an everlasting foundation in the unchangeable will of God. Man came into the world and into society at the same instant. There must exist in every earthly society a supreme sovereign, from whose final decision there can be no appeal, but directly to Heaven. This supreme power is originally and ultimately in the people; and the people never did in fact freely, nor can rightfully make an unlimited renunciation of this divine right.
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 22: (search)
sary to be agitated, and that there should be a decision upon it. No one in this house will live long enough to see an end put to the chap. XXII.} 1766. Feb. mischief which will be the result of the doctrine that has been inculcated; but the arrow is shot, and the wound already given. Mansfield's Own Report of his Speech, in Holliday, 242. See, too, the Abstract of the General Argument, in the Annual Register, where Mansfield's words are adopted. All arguments fetched from Locke, Harrington, and speculative men, who have written upon the subject of government, the law of nature, or of other nations, are little to the purpose, for we are not now settling a new constitution, but finding out and declaring the old one. Letters of Hammersley. The doctrine of representation seems ill founded; there are twelve millions of people in England and Ireland who are not represented. The parliament first depended upon tenures; representation by election came by the favor of the crow