"I was always for the liberties of the people for putting water to quench fire, or for putting banks to prevent inundation."
— Constitutions

January 1, 1970

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John Lambert on the Instrument of Government (1653), England’s first constitution, in Diary of Thomas Burton, 4: Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and Richard Cromwell from 1656 to 1659, Volume 3, p. 63. Henry Colburn, 1828