The History of the American Revolution, Volume 1James J. Wilson, 1811 |
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Page 230 - Massachusetts government, though it might be shown that every one of these pretended amendments were real mischiefs, yet that charters being compacts between two parties, the King and the people, no alteration could be made in them, even for the better, but by thg consent of both parties.