Abigail Strong Quotes
Even Kings may forfeit or discharge the allegiance of their subjects.
Strong argued in petitioning a Connecticut court for divorce in 1788 that her husband’s abuse had removed her obligation to obey him
Abigail Strong, Quoted in Cott, Public Vows, 2000
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The revolutionary acts from some of the more radical colonists but the colonial power structure was trying to negotiate for changes from the taxation and rights-impinging laws that Parliament had passed. Within a year the Continental Congress would take a more revolutionary position when this petition yielded no betterment-- {636864} and {636958}.
The Emperor had made his brother King of Holland, thinking of it as an unimportant backwater of the French Empire. But Louis took his oath and job very seriously, and although he did not have the great talent of his brother, he made a serious effort to be a good king.
Quoted in somewhat different form by Richard Nixon
The king summoned all his judges before him and stated that since they were his surrogates, he could remove cases at will from their jurisdiction and decide them himself. Sir Edward Coke, a leading jurist of the day, dissented and urged that since his Majesty was not learned in the law, he should leave legal matters to his judges and lawyers.
A. B. Magil. Poem written upon the suicide of the Russian Poet, Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky, 1893-1930. The fact that a Marxist Russian Poet would commit suicide was not seen as the result of a mental problem like depression, but as a political act and a statement of dissatisfaction with 1930 Russia.
The issues of check and balances in the American constitution were radical by world standards of the day. However, it was by no means an new concept and as this quotation illustrates was discussed and debated in England, but although England was far ahead of almost all other countries with respect to eliminating absolute power, they never took it as far as the Americans did. That took a revolution.
The revolution turned on many of its initiators including Vergniaud. He was guillotined along with other Girondists.
This is the most formalized and sophisticated compendium of laws of the so-called “barbaric peoples” of Europe. The compilation was in many ways a documentation of the traditional laws of the Visigoths that had evolved over hundreds of years.
