Author: John Henry Hopkins

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-19

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 9780265486009

Excerpt from The American Citizen: His Rights and Duties, According to the Spirit of the Constitution of the United States Being thus satisfied that there was no real propriety in declin ing the enterprise proposed, 'on the mere ground of professional objection, the only difficulty which remained was the personal doubt, whether I could hope to execute it acceptably. True, indeed, it was, that it might be better done by others. But this could hardly be admitted as a valid excuse, because it would Ope rate equally against every human undertaking All that I had a right to assume was the necessity of possessing a competent share of, the knowledge, reflection, and experience which the work required. The first thirty years of life passed in the stud ies, business, and intercourse of the world - seven of those years given to the profession of the law - Sixteen years devoted to the task of education - the training of a numerous family - abun dant Opportunities of intimacy, abroad and at home, with all the classes of society, and the whole united, from my youth up, with the constant love of books, and the peculiar tastes and habits of an author - all this seemed to warrant the hope that I might produce a work of some utility on the rights and duties of the American citizen, Without any serious diminution of the labors due to the paramount service of the Gospel. 'at all events, I could not honestly deny that I ought to be tolerably qualified to make the effort, with a fair promise of success; and therefore I concluded\that the attempt would not be justly liable to the charge of inconsistency or presumption. 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.