Editorial note — Chapter II · : Origin Of The Anglo-Americans—Part II
Henry Reeve translation
a [ Constitution of 1638, p. 17.]
b [ In 1641 the General Assembly of Rhode Island unanimously declared that the government of the State was a democracy, and that the power was vested in the body of free citizens, who alone had the right to make the laws and to watch their execution.—Code of 1650, p. 70.]
c [ “Pitkin’s History,” p. 47.]
d [ Constitution of 1638, p. 12.]