We, therefore, the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the goodness of the great Legislator of the universe, in affording us, in the course of His providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud, violence,... Acts and Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - Page 4by Massachusetts - 1921Full view - About this book
| Massachusetts. General Court - Massachusetts - 1891 - 562 pages
...eonstitution of eivil government, for ourselves and posterity ; and devoutly imploring His direetion in so interesting a design, do agree upon, ordain, and establish, the following Deelaration of Eights, and Frame of Government, as the CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.... | |
| Nebraska - Law - 1891 - 1278 pages
...1. 1876. PREAMBLE. We, the people, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, do ordain and establish following declaration of rights and frame of government, as the constitution of the of Nebraska. ARTICLE I. BILL OP EIGHTS. SECTION 1. I Kq ual rights.] — All persons are by nature... | |
| Massachusetts - Session laws - 1893 - 1136 pages
...violence, or surprise, of entering into an original, explicit, and solemn compact with each other i and of forming a new constitution of civil government,...and establish, the following Declaration of Rights, ancL Frame of Government, as the CONSTITUTION OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. PART THE FIRST.... | |
| Nebraska, Guy Ashton Brown, Hiland Hill Wheeler - Law - 1893 - 1370 pages
...NEBRASKA. IN FORCE NOVEMBER 1. 1875. PREAMBLE. We, the people, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, do ordain and establish the following declaration of...and frame of government, as the constitution of the state of Nebraska. ARTICLE I. BILL OF RIGHTS. SECTION 1. [Equal rights.] — All persons are by nature... | |
| James Bradley Thayer - Constitutional law - 1894 - 470 pages
...with each other; aud of forming a new constitution of civil government, for ourselves and posteritv ; and devoutly imploring His direction in so interesting...do agree upon, ordain, and establish the following Drrlaratinn nf Rtghts, m,d frame of Governmenl, as the CotfsTITUTlO.V OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF if A8SACHTJ8ETTS.... | |
| New York (State). Constitutional Convention - Constitutional law - 1894 - 1436 pages
...The Constitution shall be enPREAMBLE. We, the people, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, do firmations. Religion, morality and knowledge, however, being essential to good g Constiution of the State of Nebraska : ARTICLE I. Bill of RiyJtts. Section 1. All persons are by nature... | |
| Charles Borgeaud - Constitutional history - 1895 - 392 pages
...an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud, violence, or surprise, of entering into an original, explicit, and solemn compact with each...constitution of the commonwealth of Massachusetts." 1 We seem to be reading Jean Jacques. It was not, however, so much from Rousseau as from his predecessors,... | |
| Roger Foster - Constitutional history - 1895 - 730 pages
...peaceably, without fraud, violence, or surprise, of entering into an original, explicit, and f olemn compact with each other, and of forming a new constitution...constitution of the commonwealth of Massachusetts." Poore's Charters and Constitutions, Part I, pp. 956, 957. The Constitution of Georgia, framed and unanimously... | |
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