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...guilty of such an encroachment, exceed the commission from which they derive their authority, and they are tyrants. The people who submit to it, are governed...late revolution. The freemen of America did not wait until usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents....

...the state." — " Church and State," p. II. It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be...the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. Experience witnesseth that ecclesiastical establishments, instead of maintaining the purity and efficacy...