 | Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society - African Americans - 1851 - 374 pages
...driving some of them from their homes and leaving others in a state of doubt and terror, incompatible with the power of enjoying in safety and tranquillity, their natural rights, and the blessings of life which are guaranteed to every individual by the Constitution of Massachusetts ; and whereas, we have... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1852 - 94 pages
...the institution, maintenance and administration of government, is to secure the existence of the body politic ; to protect it; and to furnish the individuals who compose it, with the power of enjoying with safety and tranquillity their natural rights and the blessings of life : and whenever these great... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1853 - 158 pages
...the institution, maintenance and administration of government, is to secure the existence of the body politic; to protect it; and to furnish the individuals...body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals; it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1853 - 688 pages
...institution, maintenance, and administration of government, is to secure the existence of the body politic; to protect it; and to furnish the individuals...body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals; it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1853 - 108 pages
...maintenance, ani administration eminent. ' . ' of government is to secure the existence of die body politic ; to protect it ; and to furnish the individuals...necessary for their safety, prosperity, and happiness.. Body politic, THE body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals ; it is a social... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Liberia - 1853 - 340 pages
...institution, maintenance, and administration of government, is to secure the existence of the body politic, to protect it, and to furnish the individuals...necessary for their safety, prosperity, and happiness. Therefore, we the people of the Commonwealth of Liberia, in Africa, acknowledging with devout gratitude... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Liberia - 1853 - 318 pages
...institution, maintenance, and administration of government, is to secure the existence of the body politic, to protect it, and to furnish the individuals...necessary for their safety, prosperity, and happiness. Therefore, we the people of the Commonwealth of Liberia, in Africa, acknowledging with devout gratitude... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - Constitutional conventions - 1853 - 130 pages
...the institution, maintenance, and administration of government is to secure the existence of the body politic ; to protect it ; and to furnish the individuals...tranquillity, their natural rights and the blessings of life." " It is the duty of the people, in framing a Constitution of Government, to provide for an equitable... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention, Harvey Fowler - Constitutional conventions - 1853 - 854 pages
...great objects are not obtained, the people " Thursday,] CROWNINSHIELD. Not the towns, but the people. " The people have a right to alter the government, and...body politic is formed by a voluntary association " Of what ? Of towns ? No ! but of people. " The body politic is formed by a voluntary association... | |
 | Charles Bishop Goodrich - United States - 1853 - 364 pages
...possessing, and protecting property ; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness. protect it ; and to furnish the individuals who compose...their natural rights, and the blessings of life.* In other words, the object of government is, to sustain and enforce limitations upon the supposed,... | |
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The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government, is to secure the existence of the body politic; to protect it; and to furnish the individuals who compose it, with the power of enjoying, in safety and tranquillity, their natural... 
