Six Characters in Search of a Republic: Studies in the Political Thought of the American ColoniesRevised version of Part II of [the author's] Seedtime of the Republic. |
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... original Fundamental Orders . In 1657 , as climax to an upsurge of aristocratic displeasure over the laxity of the towns in admitting inhabitants to the franchise , a property qualification was fixed in the laws . In 1660 the ...
... original Fundamental Orders . In 1657 , as climax to an upsurge of aristocratic displeasure over the laxity of the towns in admitting inhabitants to the franchise , a property qualification was fixed in the laws . In 1660 the ...
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... original political thinker . He would have been the first to admit that his argument from the law of nature , uncommon as it must have seemed to many of his adversaries , was simply a reshaping to his own purposes of a system of thought ...
... original political thinker . He would have been the first to admit that his argument from the law of nature , uncommon as it must have seemed to many of his adversaries , was simply a reshaping to his own purposes of a system of thought ...
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... original Purity ; but never can prove that those People are even virtually represented in Parliament . And here give me Leave to observe that it would be a Work worthy of the best patriotick Spirits in the Nation to effectuate an ...
... original Purity ; but never can prove that those People are even virtually represented in Parliament . And here give me Leave to observe that it would be a Work worthy of the best patriotick Spirits in the Nation to effectuate an ...
Contents
Apostle of Soul Liberty | 35 |
A Star of the First Magnitude | 79 |
Herald of Revolution | 116 |
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