Tag: Liberty

Major Works

  • A Summary View of the Rights of British Americans

    "But your majesty, or your governors, have carried this power beyond every limit known, or provided for, by the laws: After dissolving one house of representatives, they have refused to call another, so that, for a great length of time, the legislature… More

Other Works

  • Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms

    "If it was possible for men, who exercise their reason to believe, that the divine Author of our existence intended a part of the human race to hold an absolute property in, and an unbounded power over others, marked out by his infinite goodness and wisdom,… More