Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should..

What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authori….

Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learn….

In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the conduct of publi….

The ideas that the colonists put forward, rather than creating a new condition of fact, expressed one that has long existed; they articulated and in ….