...smaller towns of the Bay Colony, Hooker was the leader in the first general exodus to Connecticut. " The foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people," was the doctrine he laid down in a sermon preached in anticipation of Connecticut's original Constitutional...

...Let us call ourselves THE CONGREGATIONAL FELLOWSHIP and dare to be all that a Fellowship should be. THE FOUNDATION OF AUTHORITY is LAID IN THE FREE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE BY REV. DAN F. BRADLEY Dignified, nervous, vigorous in speech and action — with a tremendous personal...

...expressed it gently, thus: " They thought him too straight or too high in his apprehensions." i 165. • foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people." Mr. Davenport may have seemed to place New Haven upon the same platform, in the " Foundamentall Agreement";...

...expressed it gently, thus: " They thought him too straight or too high in his apprehensions." 2165. foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people." Mr. Davenport may have seemed to place New Haven upon the same platform, in the " Foundamentall Agreement";...

...power and place unto which they call them." He gave two reasons for this assertion, — first, "Because the foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people;" second, "Because by a free choice the hearts of the people will be more inclined to the love of the...

...General Court, May 31, 1638, Mr. Hookef preached a sermon of wonderful power, in which he maintained that " the foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people," " that the choice of public magistrates belongs unto the people by God's own allowance," and that "...

...in his sermon before the opening session of the new colony's General Court, laid down the principle that " the foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people." This was high ground in 1638 and Mr. Fiske may be justified in calling Thomas Hooker the father of...

...the Rev. Thomas Hooker, Hooker's of Hartford, the leading spirit of the colony. influence. jje argued that "the foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people;" that "the choice of public magistrates belongs unto the people by God's own allowance ; " and that...

...Thomas Hooker, Hooker's of Hartford, the leading spirit of the colony, influence. jj e ar g ue d tna t " the foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people;" that "the choice of public magistrates belongs unto the people by God's own allowance ; " and that...

...hopeful community, and in 1636 a General Court was instituted. At that gathering Mr. Hooker maintained that " the foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people." The Constitution then adopted by the freemen of the three towns was the " first known to history that...