

Simultaneously with this state of affairs in America, and growing out of them,ĭiscussions of the nature of government again came into vogue, both in EnglandĪnd France. Resistance to the public authorities, threatening the entire overthrow of the Grew louder and louder until the year 1786, when they took the shape of armed Complaints of theĪristocratic character of the senate, of the governor's salary, and of the courts, Rather gained than lost strength, from the disturbed condition of things and theĭistress among the people immediately after the revolution. Hostility entertained towards an independent executive head and a double legislative department had shown itself very decidedly in the convention, and it Into operation without meeting serious obstacles in the first few years. THE constitution adopted by the State of Massachusetts, in 1780, did not go 143159 A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America
