But the question is not what we wish, but what is practicable. XVII, Hence the same original principles, modified in practice according to the different habits of different nations, present governments of very different aspects. The question then arising is, whether a pure despotism in a single head, or one which is divided among a king, nobles, priesthood, and numerous magistracy, is the least bad.
I should be puzzled to decide. ME "An hereditary chief, strictly limited, the right of war vested in the legislative body, a rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive. ME "Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, trial by jury, habeas corpus, and a representative legislature I consider as the essentials constituting free government, and I [would urge] most strenuously an immediate compromise to secure what the [present] government was now ready to yield, and trust to future occasions for what might still be wanting, Freedom of the person by habeas corpus.
Freedom of conscience. Freedom of the press. Trial by jury. A representative legislature, [with:] 6. Annual meetings. The origination of laws. The exclusive right of taxation and appropriation. And 9. The responsibility of ministers. And with the exercise of these powers they would obtain in future whatever might be further necessary to improve and preserve their constitution.
ME "[Those who] thought more could still be obtained and borne This last would be the school in which their people might begin to learn the exercise of civic duties as well as rights. For freedom of religion they are not yet prepared. What we have lately read in the history of Holland, in the chapter on the Stadtholder, would have sufficed to set me against a Chief magistrate eligible for a long duration, if I had ever been disposed towards one: and what we have always read of the elections of Polish kings should have forever excluded the idea of one continuable for life.
Wonderful is the effect of impudent and persevering lying. The British ministry have so long hired their gazetteers to repeat and model into every form lies about our being in anarchy, that the world has at length believed them, the English nation has believed them, the ministers themselves have come to believe them, and what is more wonderful, we have believed them ourselves. Yet where does this anarchy exist?
Where did it ever exist, except in the single instance of Massachusets? And can history produce an instance of a rebellion so honourably conducted? They were founded in ignorance, not wickedness. God forbid we should ever be The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.
If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had When did Thomas Jefferson say the tree of liberty? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Smith, a diplomatic official in London, on November 13, Mar Meenenga Teacher. How does Adam's reaction to rebellion differ from Jeffersons? Answer: John Adams and his friend Thomas Jefferson had very different views of how America should be like.
Adams wanted a strong central government with a focus on manufacturing and joined the Federalist Party, while Jefferson was on the Democratic-Republican end and wanted an agrarian republic.
Mable Toufik Teacher. What did Thomas Jefferson protest? The British Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts in , and Jefferson wrote a resolution calling for a "Day of Fasting and Prayer" in protest , as well as a boycott of all British goods. Sinforiana Villiers Teacher. Who said I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical?
Jaskaran Janzhul Reviewer. What did Thomas Jefferson do? Thomas Jefferson was the primary draftsman of the Declaration of Independence of the United States and the nation's first secretary of state —94 , its second vice president — , and, as the third president —09 , the statesman responsible for the Louisiana Purchase.
Rozanne Antoran Reviewer. Who said the tree of liberty must be refreshed? Caya Rusconi Reviewer. Who said we need a revolution every years? Benjamin Franklin. Stancho Ibarreche Reviewer. Is the liberty tree still standing? The Liberty Tree in Acton, Massachusetts, was an elm tree that lasted until about In , knowing that the Liberty Tree was getting older, Acton students planted the Peace Tree , a maple that still stands today.
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