colonias bajo los diversos actos de poder ejercidos por la Gran Bretaña en nuestro estado infantil confirmó estos actos, revistiéndolos de la autoridad del pueblo hasta el punto de hacerlos inalterables y nuestra resistencia actual incorrecta? Ante cada ejercicio no autorizado de poder por parte de la legislatura, ¿debe el pueblo alzarse en rebelión, o debe su silencio interpretarse como una cesión de dicho poder a aquella?
Si fo, how many rebellions fliould we have had already? One certainly for every fef- fion of afTembly. The other ftates in the union have been of opinion, that to render a form of government unalterable by or- dinary ads of afTembly, the people mufl delegate perfons with fpecial powers. They have accordingly chofen fpecial con- ventions to form and fix their govern- ments. The individuals then who main- tain the contrary opinion in this country, fhould have the modefty to fuppofe it pof- fible that they may be wrong, and the reft of America right. But if there be only a poflibility of their being wrong, if only a plaufible doubt remains of the validity of the ordinance of government. Is it not better to remove that doubt, by placing it on a bottom which none will difpute?