 | Massachusetts gen. court - 1881 - 462 pages
...prosperity, and happiness. The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals; it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants...shall be governed by certain laws for the common good. It is the duty of the people, therefore, in framing a constitution of government, to provido for an... | |
 | Charles Reemelin - Political Science - 1881 - 670 pages
...following words :— " The State is a body-politic formed by a voluntary association of individuals ; it is a social compact by which the whole people covenants...shall be governed by certain laws for the common good. ... It is the duty of the people, in framing a Constitution of government, to provide for an equitable... | |
 | Bernard Janin Sage - Constitutional history - 1881 - 656 pages
...complete political body, formed, as Massachusetts, in her organic law, declares, by "a social compact, in which the whole people covenants with each citizen,...be governed by certain laws for the common good." Collectively, therefore, the citizens govern, while individually they obey, each citizen having two... | |
 | Edward Lillie Pierce - Railroad law - 1881 - 684 pages
...retain. 'A body politic,' as aptly defined in the preamble of the Constitution of Massachusetts, Me a social compact by which the whole people covenants...whole people, that all shall be governed by certain lawg for the common good/ This does not confer power upon the whole people to control rights which... | |
 | Charles Reemelin - Political Science - 1881 - 676 pages
...words : — " The State is a body-politic formed by a voluntary association of individuals ; it is a social compact by which the whole people covenants...each citizen with the whole people, that all shall he governed by certain laws for the common good. ... It is the duty of the people, in framing a Constitution... | |
 | Bernard Janin Sage - Constitutional history - 1881 - 656 pages
...misquotation. Story says [Ibid.] that she declares, in the preamble to her constitution, that "government is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants...with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole government." This is a misquotation. The true one is to be found on page 283, tupra. She says " the... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Women - 1881 - 420 pages
...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. Aud, fortunately, there is such power... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Women - 1881 - 420 pages
...voluntary association of Individúale ; It Is a social compact, by which тик WIIOI.F. I-BOPLB euroiianU with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall bo governed by certain laws for the common good." — CoiuUtutlon о/ ЖоимАмми*. " WB тик... | |
 | Massachusetts - Constitutional law - 1883 - 76 pages
...happiness. The body politic is formed by a voluntary association Body politic, of individuals: it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants...shall be governed by certain laws for the common good. It is the duty of the people, therefore, in framing a constitution of government, to provide for an... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1883 - 830 pages
...a voluntary association of individuals ; it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenant with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole...shall be governed by certain laws for the common good. It is a prime truth laid down in the commentaries on civil law, that government exists for the good... | |
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The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of indi[viduals: it is a social compact, by which the whole people cove'nants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good. 
