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Taxation No Tyranny
Taxation no Tyranny is an influential essay written by Samuel Johnson in 1775 which addressed the issue of Parliamentary sovereignty in the United Kingdom in response to the Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress. Historian Gordon S. Wood noted of the essay that the "doctrine of sovereignty almost by itself compelled the imperial debate to be conducted in the most theoretical terms of political science." Johnson believed that "there must, in every society, be some power or other from which there is no appeal". As noted by Gordon Wood, this meant that for Johnson, "Such a sovereignty needed no representational justification" whereas "those zealots of anarchy" (in the 13 colonies) were promoting an effrontery that "no one had ever had". Johnson's phrase "in sovereignty, there are no gradations" is widely quoted, and even influenced John Wesley in his "A Calm Address To Our American Colonies". Johnson won the praise of William Searle Holdsworth for his much cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Johnson By Joseph Nollekens 1777
Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the biblical judges to the Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy), United Kingdom of Israel under Saul, and again in the monarchy's transition from Saul to David. He is Veneration, venerated as a prophet in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In addition to his role in the Hebrew scriptures, Samuel is mentioned in Jewish rabbinic literature, rabbinical literature, in the Christian New Testament, and in the second chapter of the Quran (although Islamic texts do not mention him by name). He is also treated in the fifth through seventh books of ''Antiquities of the Jews'', written by the Jewish scholar Josephus in the first century. He is first called "the Seer" in Books of Samuel, 1 Samuel 9:9. Biblical account Family Samuel's mother w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
