 | John Adams - United States - 1851 - 596 pages
...extremely difficult to get rid of it. And I knew that every one of my friends, and all those who were the most zealous for assuming governments, had at that...other government but a contemptible legislature in one assemblv, with committees for executive magistrates and judges. These questions, therefore, I answered... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1882 - 526 pages
...form of state government and send it out to all the states for their adoption ; but, he says, ' ' I dared not make such a motion because I knew that every...government, and such a theory, whether fresh from France or sii-climated here, he opposed with great vigor in his reply to the disquisitions of M. Turgot. He would... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - United States - 1882 - 534 pages
...a form of state government and send it out to all the states for their adoption ; but, he says, "I dared not make such a motion because I knew that every...judges." This was very properly termed an unbalanced 1881.] Centennial of the Mass. Constitution. 209 government, and such a theory, whether fresh from... | |
 | Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer - Referendum - 1900 - 454 pages
...22. Adams writes in his Autobiography about this time : " I knew that every one of my friends and all those who were most zealous for assuming governments,...committees for executive, magistrates and judges." legislative, executive and judicial departments of the government properly separated, and repeated... | |
 | Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer - Referendum - 1911 - 568 pages
...22. Adams writes in his Autobiography about this time: " I knew that every one of my friends and all those who were most zealous for assuming governments,...government but a contemptible legislature in one assembly, legislative, executive and judicial departments of the government properly separated, and repeated... | |
 | Edmund Cody Burnett - United States - 1921 - 650 pages
...extremely difficult to get rid of it. And I knew that every one of my friends, and all those who were the most zealous for assuming governments, had at that...with committees for executive magistrates and judges. These questions, therefore, I answered by sporting off hand a variety of short sketches of plans, which... | |
 | John Simpson Penman - Democracy - 1923 - 754 pages
...opposition; for he writes in 1775, "I know that every one of my friends, and all those who were the most zealous for assuming governments, had at that...government but a contemptible legislature in one Assembly," ' and he probably looked with little favour upon the new constitutions of Pennsylvania and Georgia.... | |
 | Charles Warren - Constitutional law - 1927 - 98 pages
...governors and councils?' 'By elections.' ... I know that every one of my friends and all those who were the most zealous for assuming governments had at that...with committees for executive magistrates and judges. ... I took care, however, always to bear my testimony against every plan of unbalanced government."... | |
 | Richard L. Bushman - History - 1992 - 298 pages
...November 1775, "every one of my friends, and all those who were the most zealous for assuming Government, had at that time no Idea of any other Government but...Committees for Executive Magistrates and Judges." 58 The number included Samuel Adams. Voices were heard in Massachusetts in 1776 and 1777 favoring a... | |
 | Bernard Crick - Political Science - 1993 - 272 pages
...justice to the debates of the Continental Congress in 1775: I knew that everyone of my friends . . . had at that time no idea of any other government but...with committees for executive magistrates and judges ... I answered by sporting offhand a variety of short sketches of plans which might be adapted by the... | |
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I knew that every one of my friends, and all those who were the most zealous for assuming governments, had at that time no idea of any other government but a contemptible legislature in one assembly, with committees for executive magistrates and judges. 
