 | Claude Halstead Van Tyne - 1922 - 526 páginas
...is significant that for his master's thesis at Harvard (1743) he chose for his subject the postulate "Whether it be lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate,...the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved." He took the affirmative, being not at all abashed by the presence of the Governor and Council in his audience.2... | |
 | Richard Stephen Uhrbrock, Albert Alexander Owens - 1922 - 404 páginas
...about the events of the day. When he was graduated from college he made a speech. His subject was, "Whether It Be Lawful To Resist the Supreme Magistrate If the Commonwealth Can Not Otherwise Be Preserved." The supreme magistrate of Massachusetts, Governor Shirley, heard the... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler - 1923 - 428 páginas
...when he presented himself for the degree of Master of Arts at the age of twenty-one. His topic was: "Whether it be Lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate,...if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be Preserved." There is no record of what the young man said, or of how his argument was received. One would greatly... | |
 | Ralph Volney Harlow - 1923 - 386 páginas
...distinction to speak in defense of some sort of thesis. Adams took the affirmative on the following: "Whether it be lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved." * No one knows how he handled his argument, but it would be safe to assume... | |
 | Charles Alexander McMurry - 1923 - 378 páginas
...Adams, at the age of twenty-one, in 1743, in his commencement oration at Harvard discussed the question: "Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth can not otherwise be preserved." Twenty-one years later upon entering the Massachusetts Assembly he... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - 1926 - 428 páginas
...degree at Harvard University in 1743 maintained the affirmative in a public discussion of the question whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate...if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved. It was thirty-two years later that the embattled farmers fired, at Concord Bridge, the shot heard round... | |
 | Wayland Farries Vaughan - 1928 - 340 páginas
...dogmatism of his day and when he chose the subject for his thesis at Harvard, he selected the topic, "Whether it be lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate,...if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved." Adams started the study of law and dropped it. He tried business for a few months and then severed... | |
 | Henry Hallam Saunderson - 1928 - 290 páginas
...degree' at Harvard University in 1743, maintained the affirmative in a public discussion of the question whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate...if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved. It was thirty-two years later that the embattled farmers fired, at Concord Bridge, the shot heard round... | |
 | 1864 - 804 páginas
...dedicated to " Christ and the Church," but already, in 1742, the question was discussed at Commencement, " Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate,...if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved," — Samuel Adams speaking in the affirmative. Such was the condition of America at the period just... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1921 - 718 páginas
...Adams maintained, on taking his degree of Master of Arts at Harvard, the affirmative of the thesis, Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate...if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved. In this hour of the calamity of her sister college I am glad to believe that Harvard does not forget... | |
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On the latter occasion, he proposed the following question for discussion, " whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved? 
