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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, The American revolution. (search)
ssarily out of the development of British institutions. The supreme right of parliament as the representative of English nationality, and bound to resist and overthrow the personal government of the Stuarts, was the watchword of the revolution of 1688, which had been dear to America as the deathblow to monarchical absolutism throughout the English dominions, and as the harbinger of constitutional liberty for the civilized world. Parliament again asserted its paramount authority over the crown,. language the most precise and the most intelligible. Not only was the principle recognised that free ships make free goods; but, both positively and negatively, ship-timber and other naval stores were excluded from the list of contraband. In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces; and Locke brought back from his exile in that country
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 2: (search)
that it is not my affair which I administer, but the affair of my people. Gelzer's Aufgaben, 2. Consciences, he owned, belong to God; no worldly potentate may force them. Pfleiderer's Leibnitz, 523. So when the revocation of the edict of Nantes, in October, 1685, drove out of France a half million of the best of the French nation, the noble company of exiles found a new country, partly with the Great Elector, and partly with the Protestant colonies in America. The same revolution of 1688, which excluded Papists from the throne of England, restored liberty to the colonies in America, and made it safe for the son of the Great Elector to crown himself on his own soil as king of Prussia. As the elector of Saxony had meantime renounced the reformation, to ride for a few stormy years on the restless waves of Polish anarchy, Leibnitz could say with truth: The elector of Brandenburg is now the head of the Protestants in the empire. Ibid., 524. The pope of the hour, foreshadowing