Mr. Speaker. discussing the circumstances under which our country was settled. Green. the great English historian. wrote: Between the sailing of Winthrops expedition and the assembling of the Long Parliament. in the space that is. of 10 or 11 years. 200 emigrant ships had crossed the Atlantic. and 20.000 Englishmen had found a refuge in the west. Driven by a brutal abuse of royal power Invading their individual rights as citizens. these sturdy men thus crossed the Atlantic to find homes in the wilderness amongst us. Therefore it is no wonder that as soon as we realized that we were Americans and not merely English colonists we were taught that the law surrounds each citizen with a circle of individual rights over which no government.
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