...charters. It was retorted that New York had no charter. " The sacred rights of mankind," he rejoined, " are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or...and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. Civil liberty cannot be wrested from any people without the most manifold violation of justice and...

...forth in a strain of bold and thrilling eloquence : — "The sacred rights of mankind," he declared, "are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or...in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." He insisted on the duty of resistance,...

...bold and thrilling eloquence. He said, in part : " The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rumaged for among old parchments or musty records ; they are...in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." Hamilton insisted on the duty...

...which they disdained to argue but declared to be self-evident; truths, said Alexander Hamilton, that are "written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature and not to be erased or obscured by mortal power." That assertion of liberty as a natural right was...

...the enjoyment of the most important privileges of the rest. There is no need, however, of this plea. The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged...can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." 1197 No concession. Compare from American Taxation, Burke 's notion of the alternatives: "If you do...

...youth of eighteen, subsequently commanded a battalion of light infantry for among old parchments and musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam,...and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. Civil liberty cannot be wrested from any people without the most manifold violation of justice, and...

...Otis, Hopkins, Samuel Adams, John Adams, and Hamilton. "The sacred rights of mankind," said Hamilton, "are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or...Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured." The rights referred to as derived from the laws of nature were generally spoken of, as Hopkins put...

...whom war might possibly prove ruin. " Whom did they represent ? " asks for among old parchments and musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam,...and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. Civil liberty cannot be wrested from any people without the most manifold violation of justice, and...

...documents, he declared, must yield to natural law and the rights of man. "The sacred rights of man are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or...in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of divinity itself and can never be erased by mortal power." The Declaration of Independence was an epitome...

...from "the Great Legislator of the universe." Even more vividly the youthful Hamilton asserted that "the sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged...can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." What constitutes these rights was best stated in the Declaration of Independence, where it was asserted...