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Excerpt from The Life of John Adams
Viewed in this light, the century commencing in this country in 1761, with the opposition to writs of assistance, and extending to the outbreak of the great civil war, may, as it recedes, be likely to stand out more and more as his torically constituting one epoch, marked by characteristics exclusively its own. It will be held to embrace the youth of a great people, establishing proofs of its capacity to proceed alone, under a specific form of government con structed and set in motion by its deliberate act, and per severed in throughout with the general assent. This epoch may, therefore, be justly designated as that of the sover eignty of a written organic law, steadily upheld by the voluntary co-operation of the governed, who, at the same time, continued all the while free masters of its terms. N 0 experiment of the kind can be said to have had anything like success before.
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