 | United States - 1827 - 634 pages
...religious right, the people, of these United States not only cast off the yoke of foreign domination, but " the whole people covenants with each citizen, and...be governed by certain laws for the common good." We consider it therefore, the duty of every citizen to watch for the public welfare ; to sound the... | |
 | James Creighton Odiorne - Freemasonry - 1830 - 292 pages
...religious right, the people of these United States not only cast off the yoke of foreign domination, but " the whole people covenants with each citizen, and...be governed by certain laws for the common good." We consider it therefore, the duty of every citizen to watch for the public welfare ; to sound the... | |
 | James Creighton Odiorne - Freemasonry - 1830 - 314 pages
...religious right, the people of these United States not only cast off the yoke of foreign domination, but " the whole people covenants with each citizen, and...be governed by certain laws for the common good." We consider it therefore, the duty of every citizen to watch for the public welfare; to sound the alarm... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - Digital images - 1831 - 52 pages
...Commonwealth it is declared, that the body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals ; that it is a social compact, by which the whole people...be governed by certain laws, for the common good. The body politic of the United States was formed by the voluntary association of the people of the... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1832 - 276 pages
...their natural rights, and the blessings of life; And whenever these great objects are not obtained, the people have a right to alter the government, and to...necessary for their safety, prosperity and happiness. THE body-politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals: It is a social compact, by which... | |
 | Law - 1833 - 514 pages
...Massachusetts asserts, that " the body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals ; that it is a social compact, by which the whole people...shall be governed by certain laws for the common good ;" and that in the same preamble, the people acknowledge with grateful hearts, that Providence had... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 564 pages
...Massachusetts asserts, that " the body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals ; that it is a social compact, by which the whole people...be governed by certain laws for the common good;" and that in the same preamble, the people acknowledge with grateful hearts, that Providence had afforded... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1833 - 806 pages
...natural rights, and the blessings of life ; And whenever these great objects are not obtained, the people have a right to alter the government, and to...necessary for their safety, prosperity and happiness. THE body-politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals : It is a social compact, by which... | |
 | Richard Sullivan Fay - Anti-Catholicism - 1835 - 98 pages
...it, the power of enjoying in safety and tranquillity their mutual rights and the blessings of life." "It is a social compact, by which the whole people...citizen and each citizen with the whole people, that we shall be governed by certain laws for the common good." "Article 1. All men are born free and equal... | |
 | Benjamin Dole - Free thought - 1838 - 52 pages
...enjoying, in safety and tranquillity, their natural rights, and the blessings of life." " The body-politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals...be governed by certain laws for the common good." In the first, seventh, eighth and eighteenth articles of the Bill of Rights, it is found written :... | |
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The- 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 each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good. 
