Of Sound Mind: A Pacific Transcription

EXECUTORS OF CRUDEN v. NEALE

Superior Court of North Carolina

May 1, 1796

When a change of government takes place, from a monarchical to a republican government, the old form is dissolved. Those who lived under it, and did not choose to become members of the new, had a right to refuse their allegiance to it, and to retire elsewhere. By being a part of the society subject to the old government, they had not entered into any engagement to become subject to any new form the majority might think p...