Virginia Declaration of Rights
…and at all times amendable to them. III. That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection and security of the people, nation, or community; of…
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Sovereign Citizens
…insulation of the people from political power, not in their participation. So, in terms of the mechanics of the state, those “sovereign citizens” are on to something, in that Canada…
The Great Awakening in Nova Scotia, 1776-1809
…sect called “Newlights”, whose religion seemed to be a “strange jumble of New England Independency and Behmenism.” Through the teaching of these “ignorant mechanics and common laborers”, the people were…
Nova Scotia Gazette, Nov 21 1765.
…pour irresistible upon gainsayers, and avarice itself be convinced of this great truth, that starving the present generation of poor Laborers and mechanics, does not tend to the permanent benefit…
Statistics Relative to Nova Scotia in 1851
…Lawyers 143 Engaged in the fisheries 9,927 Doctors 145 Registered seamen 1,413 Merchants and traders 2,415 Employed at sea 3,961 Employed in manufactories 3,200 Engaged in lumbering 1,254 Mechanics 8,895…
Speech on Elective Councils (Senate)
…before the upper branch is rendered elective. But, it is said, the Councils would in that case be filled with persons of low estate; with farmers, and mechanics, who know…
Amicitia Crescimus
…mechanics increasingly erased since being unilaterally overturned by the BNA in 1867 in what’s become a pattern of action ever since. The challenges of promoting a “common country” in a…
Note by the Commissioner on the Sources of Land Titles in Maine
The development of that political jurisdiction and sovereignty, which at the end of more than two centuries ripened into State Independence in 1820, is so peculiar and interesting, and the…
Royal Letters, Charters, and Tracts, Relating to the Colonization of New Scotland, and the Institution of the Order of Knight Baronets of Nova Scotia, 1621-1638
August 5, 1621. JAMES R. RIGHT trusty and welbeloued Coscns and Counsellours and right trusty and welbeloued Counsellours Wee greete you well. Haueing euer beene ready to em brace anie…
Nova Scotian “Sparks of Liberty”
…in the following paragraph by Observer: A Provincial Government is, in Fact, nothing more than a Corporation, instituted thro’ the Courtesy of the King, for the Convenience of His Subjects,…