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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 31: (search)
At last on the twelfth of January, the letter was adopted, to be sent to the Agent, communicated to the British Ministry, and published to the world, as expressing the unchangeable opinions of Massachusetts. Disclaiming the most distant thought of indepen- Chap. XXXI.} 1768. Jan. dence of the mother country, provided they could have the free enjoyment of their rights, the House affirmed, Letter from the House of Representatives, to D. de Berdt, Agent for the Province in England, January 12, 1768, in Bradford's Massachusetts State papers, 124. that the British constitution hath its foundation in the law of God and nature; that in every free state, the supreme Legislature derives its power from the constitution; and is bounded and circumscribed by its fundamental rules. That the right to property exists by a law of nature, they asserted, on the one side, against the visionary and impracticable Utopian schemes of levelling and a community of goods; on the other, against all Act