Virginia Declaration of Rights and Cardinal Bellarmine (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Virginia Declaration of Rights and Cardinal Bellarmine In 1776 men were discussing these things and also the theory of government itself. Some of them had decided that it was a contract between the governed and the governors; others believed all power belonged to the people; others were content to trace its origin to the family relation, and others thought that rulers derived their right to rule from the Supreme Ruler of the Universe. In the beginning of the settlement of America these questions were not of practical importance, for pioneers in a wilderness had only problems of personal government to deal with. Questions of liberty did not obtrude themselves upon men who could go at will through a boundless country and make their homes wherever they pleased. The Jamestown court book, which begins in 1622 and is the earliest government record of the English occupation, shows this, for the chief function of the government was to punish small offences against law and order, and wrongs committed by one man against another. A hundred years later, however, governmental conditions had become more complex, the country having passed the earliest pioneer stage, having increased greatly in population and having become valuable to the nation which owned it. When that nation began to restrain its American subjects, to exercise authority over them and to tax them, neglected theories of government were revived and they began to study them with a practical object in view. They felt that they were ill-used, and read and discussed so as to give form to their grievances. Ready at hand was the classic literature of Athens and Rome which all educated men knew fairly well. The civilization of those states was understood and entered into the daily thought of the time. When the Americans came to create governments of their own they adapted to their use some of the institutions and nomenclature of the classical period. It would be beyond the scope of this article, however, to try to find the classical spring of the thoughts which were in the mind of George Mason when he wrote the Declaration of Rights and of Thomas Jefferson when he wrote the Declaration of Independence, nor is it necessary to do so, for their immediate inspiration came from more modern sources. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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