| Constitutions - 1782 - 188 pages
...and happinefs. The body-politic is formed, by a voluntary aflbciation of individuals ; it is a focial compact, by which the whole people covenants with...citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all fhall be governed by certain laws for the common good. Jt is the duty' of the people, therefore, in... | |
| Constitutional law - 1783 - 492 pages
...The body-politic is formed by a voluntary afTociation of individuals ; it is a focial compadt, pact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all fhall be governed by certain laws for the common good. It is the duty of the people, therefore, in... | |
| William Winterbotham - History - 1795 - 514 pages
...happinefs. The body politic is formed by a voluntary aflbciation of indiri«Juals ; it is a focial compaft, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen,...and each- citizen with the whole people, that all jhalJ be governed by certain laws for the common good. It is the <5nty of the people, therefore, in... | |
| William Winterbotham - America - 1796 - 580 pages
...The body politic is formed by a voluntary affociation of individuals; it is a focial сотрай, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen,...and each citizen, with the whole people, that all (ball be governed by certain law» for the common good. It is the duty of the people, therefore in... | |
| Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...happinefs. The be;;!1/ politic is formed 'by a voluntary affociation of individuals. It is a focial compa6>, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all fhall be governtd by certain iaws for the common good. It is the duty cf the people, therefore, in... | |
| Constitutions - 1828 - 494 pages
...happiness. The hody politic is formed hy a voluntary association of individuals. It is a social compact, hy which the whole people covenants with each citizen,...each citizen with the whole people, that all shall he governed hy certain laws for the common good. It is the duty of the people therefore in framing... | |
| Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 554 pages
...voluntary association of individuals — was a social compact, by which the whole people covenanted with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all should be governed by certain laws for the common good. With these views and principles, the people... | |
| Law - 1833 - 514 pages
...of Massachusetts, which in its preamble contains the declaration already quoted, that government " is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants...with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole government;" are we to construe that compact, after the adoption of the constitution, as still a contract,... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 564 pages
...constitution of Massachusetts, which in its preamble contains the declaration already quoted, that government "is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants...with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole government;" are we to construe that compact, after the adoption of the constitution, as still a contract,... | |
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