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Government Without the Constitution

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Apr 3, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 14.

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Government Without the Constitution

GOVERNMENT without the Constitution will be only absolutism in government. And it has already begun; for when, the other day, in the United States Senate an amendment was offered to the Puerto Rico bill designating Puerto Rico as “a Territory of the United States,” the explanation was made that “we do not propose to erect there a territorial form of government, as such form of government is usually understood.” And when a senator asked, “Why not?” the answer was given: “The reason is that we do not want to give it to them, and that is reason enough.”