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Life and Letters of John Winthrop: Governor of the Massachusetts-Bay Company ... - Page 237
by Robert Charles Winthrop - 1869
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The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, Volume 2

John Winthrop - Massachusetts - 1826 - 440 pages
...churches, would occasion infinite trouble and expense, and yet leave the issue to the sword. I expostulated about the unwarrantableness and unsafeness of referring...the lesser. The old law was, choose ye out judges &c. and thou shalt bring the matter to the judge &c. 3. That they did still exercise jurisdiction at...
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The history of New England from 1630 to 1649. With notes by J. Savage, Volume 2

John Winthrop - 1826 - 452 pages
...churches, would occasion infinite trouble and expense, and yet leave the issue to the sword. I expostulated about the unwarrantableness and unsafeness of referring...the lesser. The old law was, choose ye out judges &c. and thou shalt bring the matter to the judge &c. 3. That they did still exercise jurisdiction at...
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The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, Volume 2

John Winthrop - Massachusetts - 1826 - 446 pages
...leave the issue to the sword. I expostulated about the unwarrantableness and unsafeness of referrmg matter of counsel or judicature to the body of the...the lesser. The old law was, choose ye out judges &c. and thou shalt bring the matter to the judge &c. 3. That they did still exercise jurisdiction at...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 47

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1887 - 490 pages
...Governor Winthrop, of Massachusetts had written him, in regard to judicature by the body of the people. " The best part is always the least and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser." And Hooker had answered, " In matters of greater consequence, which concern the common good, a general...
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The History of New England from 1630 to 1649...

John Winthrop - 1853 - 520 pages
...churches, would occasion infinite trouble and expense, and yet leave the issue to the sword. I expostulated about the unwarrantableness and unsafeness of referring...and thou shalt bring the matter to the judge, etc. 3. That they did still exercise jurisdiction at Agawam,1 though one of their commissioners disclaimed...
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A Letter in Answer to the Complaints of Gov. Winthrop of Massachusetts ...

Thomas Hooker - 1859 - 32 pages
...but to "set the bounds and limitations of their power and place;" the other was firmly persuaded of "the unwarrantableness and unsafeness of referring...that best part the wiser part is always the lesser ; " and declared that " the people, having deputed others, have no power to make or alter laws, but...
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Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review, Volume 52

Bible - 1895 - 816 pages
...unwarrantableness and unsafeness of referring matters of counsel or judicature to the body of the people, because the best part is always the least, and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser." Mr. Hooker replied that the judges must simply enforce the law, and the general counsel should be chosen...
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The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the ..., Volume 13

United States - 1868 - 474 pages
...descendants are not as proud as they ought to be, when lie said of the body of the people — "Тив BEST " PART IS ALWAYS THE LEAST, AND OF THAT BEST " PART THE WISER PART IS ALWAYS THE LESSER." It is a libel on Johnson to call him a democrat, in any sense. He was a Puritan, and his Editor's apology...
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for ..., Volume 10

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 852 pages
...of America. He was opposed to an unlimited democracy, for he said : ' The best part of a community is always the least, and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser.' He kept a journal up to 1649, two books of which were published in 1790; and the third, found in the...
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for ..., Volume 10

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 858 pages
...of America. He was opposed to an unlimited democracy, for he said : ' The best part of a community is always the least, and of that best part the wiser part is always the lesser.' He kept a journal up to 1649, two books of which were published in 1790; and the third, found in the...
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