 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1900 - 386 pages
...with it . For a republic like ours does not profess to deal with classes, but with individuals; since "the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, for the common good," as the constitution of Massachusetts says. And, fortunately, there is such power... | |
 | Georg Jellinek - Constitutional history - 1901 - 132 pages
...them. MASSACHUSETTS, Preamble. The bodypolitic 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 3. Le principe de toute sottvcraiiifte' reside essentiellement dans la nation. Nul corps, mil individu... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - History, Modern - 1905 - 934 pages
...body-politic is "a voluntary association of individuals..^ social compact by which the whole people covenant with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole...all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good''1; and then that the people "ordain and establish the following declaration of rights and frame... | |
 | Georg Jellinek - Civil rights - 1902 - 136 pages
...body-politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuels; it is a social compact by \vhich the whole people covenants with each citizen and each citizen with the whole people that ail s^hall be governed by certain laws for the common good. Massachusetts X. Each individual of the... | |
 | University of the State of New York - Education - 1904 - 916 pages
...individual not affected by his relations to others, he might retain. A body politic is a social coinltact by which the whole people covenants with each citizen,...whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laics for the common good." (94 US 124) By the settled construction of the courts, the word " necessary,"... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - Presidents - 1914 - 586 pages
...duty of protection to commerce. I read in the Constitution of Massachusetts that "the body politic is a social compact by which the whole people covenants...each citizen and each citizen with the whole people" Governor Strong and the majority of the Massachusetts legislature allow great weight to the British... | |
 | Roger Sherman Hoar - Constitutional amendments - 1917 - 272 pages
...fundamental principles of government which are beyond the control of the Legislature. A constitution is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants...all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.1 In other words, it is the Anglo-Saxon theory that gov1 ernment is in some way based upon a contract... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitution - 1918 - 1106 pages
...legislation by elected representatives. Declaring in the Preamble of the Constitution that the body politic is "a social compact by which the whole people covenants...citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that al] shall be governed by certain laws for the common good," they asserted that "it is the duty of the... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1918 - 1140 pages
...the Preamble Xne Constitution that the body politic is "a social compact by which the whole ^**S ie covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all iau be governed by certain laws for the common good," they asserted that "it is auty of the people,... | |
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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 he governed by certain laws for the common good. 
