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Lowell Offering, April 1841 (Lowell, Mass.: Printed by A. Watson), p. 32. Courtesy American Antiquarian Society. The day is over, no longer will we toil and spin; For evening’s hush
Public Documents, Containing Proceedings of the Hartford Convention of Delegates . . . (Massachusetts Senate: 1815), 3-22. The Delegates from the Legislatures of the States of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode-Island,
Bound for New England | Weymouth, 20th of March 1635. Editor’s Note: Identified heads of household are in bold.
A perfect theory on this subject would be useful, not because it could be reduced to practice by any plan of legislation, or ought to be attempted by violence on
No government is perhaps reducible to a sole principle of operation. Where the theory approaches nearest to this character, different and often heterogeneous principles mingle their influence in the administration.
Power being found by universal experience liable to abuses, a distribution of it into separate departments has become a first principle of free governments. By this contrivance, the portion entrusted
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one. As there are cases where the public opinion must be obeyed by the government;
Much has been said, and not without reason, against a consolidation of the states into one government. Omitting lesser objections, two consequences would probably flow from such a change in
