 | John K. Alexander - 2002 - 270 páginas
...age. When he took a master's degree in 1743, Samuel proposed to argue the affirmative of the position "Whether it be lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate if the Commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved." Samuel's choice revealed his increasing focus on the crucial issue of defending... | |
 | Richard Brookhiser - 2002 - 258 páginas
...Advertiser. To win his master's degree at Harvard, young Samuel defended the proposition that it was "lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved." 10 He ran through his inheritance and lived in the rundown family property in Boston's South End, with... | |
 | Lucinda L. Damon-Bach, Victoria Clements - 2003 - 380 páginas
...early as 1743 Samuel Adams argued for the aff1rmative in a Harvard debate on the question "[I]s it lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved?"1 In 1750 Jonathan Mayhew, minister of Boston's West Church, asked, "[W]hat reason is there... | |
 | Lon Cantor - 2003 - 244 páginas
...quotations, plus little stories to make his points. For his master's degree thesis, his title question was, "Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate...if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved." Not surprisingly in light of his subsequent activities, Samuel answered this question in the affirmative.... | |
 | David L. Holmes - 2006 - 241 páginas
...1743, Adams received an MA from Harvard, answering affirmatively in his thesis the following question: "Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate if the commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved." Six years later he married Elizabeth Checkley, daughter of the pastor of New... | |
 | Michael S Lief, H. Mitchell Caldwell - 2006 - 456 páginas
...brewer, attended Harvard, the only college in the area, obtaining a master's degree in 1743. His thesis, "Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved?" answered in the affirmative. After graduation, Adams tried his hand at several... | |
 | J. David Hoeveler - 2007 - 404 páginas
...Harrington, and Samuel Pufendorf. It was Adams who in 1743 had taken the affirmative in the proposition: "whether it be lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved."1' But another influence was also at work on Adams, though it is more difficult to measure... | |
 | Eric Burns - 2007 - 480 páginas
...as an undergraduate, he wrote an essay on "Liberty" and, for his master's thesis, chose to consider "whether it be lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate, if the Commonwealth be otherwise preserved." He decided it was. Sam earned his master of arts degree in three years; it... | |
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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? 
