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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
if established as regular statutes, might be censured by their enemies as repugnant to the laws of England, had not been very forward to adopt the model which Cotton had elaborately prepared and justified in all its parts by apposite texts of scripture. Now that the causes of apprehension were suspended, the great work of constitutional legislation was resumed; and in December, 1641, a session of three weeks was employed in considering a system which had been prepared by Nathaniel Ward, of Ipswich. As the author of the fundamental code, he is the most remarkable among all the early legislators of Massachusetts; he had been formerly a student and practiser in the courts of common law in England, but became a nonconforming minister; so that he was competent to Chap. X.} combine the humane doctrines of the common law with the principles of natural right and equality, as deduced from the Bible. After mature deliberation, his model, which for its liberality and comprehensiveness may v