...and readjust its lines of local self-government. His own oration at Commencement was on the thesis, " Whether it be lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved." In his day politics had, in a measure, taken the place of theology as a field...

...a greater benefit to the state than commerce? Aff. 1742, 1751, 1753, 1773, 1785, 1786, 1787. Is it lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved ? Aff. 1743. Samuel Adams.* Does civil government originate from compact ? Aff. 1743, 1747, 1751, 1761,...

...ministry. As early as 1 743, when he received the degree of AM, he proposed a discussion of the question, " Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth otherwise cannot be preserved." He strongly opposed the Stamp Act, and favored the Provincial Congress....

...side. He who, as a Harvard College student, in 1743, had maintained the affirmative of the thesis, " Whether it be lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate,...if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved," and who, during those whole three-and-thirty years since had been training up himself and ORATION —...

...his graduating thesis at Harvard in 1743, in which he took the affirmative side of the question : " Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate,...the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved." He was from the first a zealous defender of popular rights, and did as much as any one man in bringing...

...connection with Great Britain. When he graduated, the subject which he chose for his oration was : — "Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot be otherwise preserved?" He maintained that it was lawful, and he enforced his opinion with something...

...at that time — 1743 — that his thesis was a defence of the affirmative reply to the question, " Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate,...if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved ?" The failure of the banking scheme above referred to, in consequence of the limitations imposed by...

...after he became Master of Arts, the thesis which he presented showed plainly what was his true bent. " Whether it be Lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate,...if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved," was his subject, which he proceeded to discuss in the presence, not only of the college dignitaries,...

...for his thesis a subject which clearly indicated the arena upon which he would like to contend : " Whether it be lawful to resist the supreme magistrate...if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved." Boldly maintaining the affirmative, he laid down propositions which gave the key-note to his whole...

...Arts, the thesis which he presented showed plainly what was his true bent. "Whether it be Law-, ful to resist the Supreme Magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved," was his subject, which he proceeded to discuss in the presence, not only of the college dignitaries,...