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Samuel Adams
- "Father of the American Revolution"
"Has it [government] any solid foundation?
any chief cornerstone...? I think it is an everlasting
foundation in the unchangeable will of God, the author
of Nature whose laws never vary...Government...is
by no means an arbitrary thing depending merely on
compact or human will for its existence... The power
of God Almighty is the only power that can properly
and strictly be called supreme and absolute. In the
order of nature immediately under him comes the power
of a simple democracy, or the power of the whole over
the world...[God is] the only Monarch in the universe
who has a clear and undisputable right to absolute
power because He is the only one who is omniscient
as well as omnipotent... The sum of my argument is
of God, that the administrators of it were originally
the whole people."
Source: James Otis, The Right of
the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (Boston:
J.Williams 1776), pp.11,12,13,98.
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