tailieunhanh - Sat - MC Grawhill part 22

Tham khảo tài liệu 'sat - mc grawhill part 22', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 200 McGRAW-HILL S SAT SAT Practice 7 Thinking Logically About the Questions The following is an excerpt from John Adams A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law written in 1765. John Adams 1735-1826 was the first vice-president of the United States and the second president of the United States. Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a Line right from the frame of their nature to knowledge as their great Creator who does 5 nothing in vain has given them understandings and a desire to know but besides this they have a right an indisputable unalienable indefeasible divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge I 10 mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers. Rulers are no more than attorneys agents and trustees for the people and if the cause the interest and trust is insidiously betrayed or wantonly trifled away the people 15 have a right to revoke the authority that they themselves have deputed and to constitute abler and better agents attorneys and trustees. And the preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more im- 20 portance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country. It is even of more consequence to the rich themselves and to their posterity. The only question is whether it is a public emolument 1 and if it is 25 the rich ought undoubtedly to contribute in the same proportion as to all other public bur-dens that is in proportion to their wealth which is secured by public expenses. But none of the means of information are more sacred or 30 have been cherished with more tenderness and care by the settlers of America than the press. Care has been taken that the art of printing should be encouraged and that it should be easy and cheap and safe for any person to 35 communicate his thoughts to the public. Let us dare to read think speak and write. Let every order and degree among the people rouse their attention and animate their resolution. .