Excerpt from History of the United States of America, From the Discovery of the Continent, Vol. 2 England, by a vast majority, declared the executive power to be a conditional trust; and the hereditary assembly of patricians, struggling in vain for the acknowledgment of a right of suc cession inherent in birth, after earnest debates, accepted the theory of an original contract between king and people. The election of William III. To be king for life was a triumph of the perseverance of the more popular party in the commons over the inherited prejudices of the aristocracy. In this lies the democratic tendency that won to the revolution the scattered remnant of the good old republicans this appropriated to the Whigs the glory of the change, in which they took pride, and of which the tories regretted the necessity. This commended the epoch to the friends of freedom throughout the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.