...s answered, It is better that the liberties of the people should be taken from them, than given up by themselves. Burnet, dying, bequeathed the contest to Belcher, his successor. The assembly of Massachusetts , it was said in his instructions, for some years last past, have attempted, by unwarrantable practices, to weaken, if not cast off, the obedience they owe to the crown, and the dependence which all c...