Tom Holland Rubicon Epub 14 =LINK=

Tom Holland Rubicon Epub 14 =LINK=

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10But as the colony increases, the public concerns will increaselikewise, and the distance at which the members may be separated, willrender it too inconvenient for all of them to meet on every occasion asat first, when their number was small, their habitations near, and thepublic concerns few and trifling. This will point out the convenienceof their consenting to leave the legislative part to be managed by aselect number chosen from the whole body, who are supposed to have thesame concerns at stake which those who appointed them, and who will actin the same manner as the whole body would act were they present. Ifthe colony continue increasing, it will become necessary to augmentthe number of the representatives, and that the interest of every partof the colony may be attended to, it will be found best to divide thewhole into convenient parts, each part sending its proper number; andthat the elected might never form to themselves an interest separate from the electors, prudence will point out the propriety of having elections often; because as the elected might by that means return and mix again with the general body of the electors in a few months, their fidelity to the public will be secured by the prudent reflexion of not making a rod for themselves. And as this frequent interchange will establish a common interest with every part of the community, they will mutually and naturally support each other, and on this (not on the unmeaning name of king) depends the strength of government, and the happiness of the governed.

14I know it is difficult to get over local or long standing prejudices,yet if we will suffer ourselves to examine the component parts of theEnglish constitution, we shall find them to be the base remains of twoancient tyrannies, compounded with some new republican materials.

36Near three thousand years passed away from the Mosaic account of thecreation, till the Jews under a national delusion requested a king.Till then their form of government (except in extraordinary cases,where the Almighty interposed) was a kind of republic administred by a judge and the elders of the tribes. Kings they had none, and it was held sinful to acknowledge any being under that title but the Lord of Hosts. And when a man seriously reflects on the idolatrous homage which is paid to the persons of Kings, he need not wonder, that the Almighty ever jealous of his honor, should disapprove of a form of government which so impiously invades the prerogative of heaven.

95Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority, perfectequality affords no temptation. The republics of Europe are all (andwe may say always) in peace. Holland and Swisserland are without wars,foreign or domestic: Monarchical governments, it is true, are neverlong at rest; the crown itself is a temptation to enterprizing ruffiansat home; and that degree of pride and insolence ever attendant on regal authority, swells into a rupture with foreign powers, in instances, where a republican government, by being formed on more naturalprinciples, would negociate the mistake.

162Should we neglect the present favorable and inviting period, and anIndependance be hereafter effected by any other means, we must chargethe consequence to ourselves, or to those rather, whose narrow andprejudiced souls, are habitually opposing the measure, without eitherinquiring or reflecting. There are reasons to be given in support ofIndependance, which men should rather privately think of, than bepublicly told of. We ought not now to be debating whether we shall beindependant or not, but, anxious to accomplish it on a firm, secure,and honorable basis, and uneasy rather that it is not yet began upon.Every day convinces us of its necessity. Even the Tories (if suchbeings yet remain among us) should, of all men, be the most solicitousto promote it; for, as the appointment of committees at first,protected them from popular rage, so, a wise and well established formof government, will be the only certain means of continuing it securelyto them. Wherefore, if they have not virtue enough to be Whigs, they ought to have prudence enough to wish for Independance.

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