For by this authority, given him by every particular man in the commonwealth, he hath the use of so much power and strength conferred on him, that by terror thereof, he is enabled to perform the wills of them all, to peace at home, and mutual aid against... Albany Law Journal - Page 2511881Full view - About this book
| American essays - 1889 - 876 pages
...the immortal God, our peace and defense. For by this authority, given him by every particular man in the commonwealth, he hath the use of so much power...home, and mutual aid against their enemies abroad." " His power cannot, without his consent, be transferred to another ; he cannot forfeit it ; he cannot... | |
| Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1834 - 320 pages
...the immortal God, our peace and defence. For by this authority, given him by every pnrticular man in the commonwealth, he hath the use of so much power...consisteth the essence of the commonwealth; which (to de.ine it) is one person of whose acts a great multitude, by mutual covenants one witli another, have... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...the immortal God, our peace and defence. For by this authority, given him by every particular man in the Commonwealth, he hath the use of so much power...he is enabled to perform the wills of them all, to (with a view to) peace at home, and mutual aid against their enemies abroad. And in him consisteth... | |
| 1869 - 974 pages
...and authorize all his actions in like manner. By this authority, given him by every particular man in the commonwealth, he hath the use of so much power...commonwealth, which, to define it, is one person, of whose acts a great multitude, by mutual covenants one iritli another, have made themselves, every one,... | |
| Great Britain - 1869 - 974 pages
...and authorise all his actions in like manner. By this authority, given him by every particular man in the commonwealth, he hath the use of so much power...mutual aid against their enemies abroad. And in him consistetb the essence of the commonwealth, which, to define it, is one person, of whose acts a great... | |
| John D. Minor - History - 1870 - 434 pages
...the Immortal God, our peace and defense. For, by this authority, given him by every particular man in the Commonwealth, he hath the use of so much power...Commonwealth, which, to define it, is one person, of whose acts a great multitude, by mutual covenants one with another, have made themselves everyone the... | |
| Law - 1881 - 572 pages
...to speak more reverently, of that mortal god to which we owe, under the Immortal God, our peace and defense. For by this authority given him by every...home and mutual aid against their enemies abroad. And iu him consisteth the essence of the Commonwealth which, to define it, is one person, of whose acts... | |
| Charles Hole, Richard Watson Dixon, Julius Lloyd - Church and state - 1874 - 614 pages
...person is called a Commonwealth, in Latin, Givitas." Of this civil head thus invested he adds : — "And in him consisteth the essence of the Commonwealth, which, to define it, is ' One person, of whose acts a great multitude by mutual covenants one with another hare made themselves every one the... | |
| James Comper Gray - 1877 - 402 pages
...reverently, ol that mortal god to which we owe, under the immortal God, our peace and defence. . . . And in him consisteth the essence of the Commonwealth : which (to define it) is one person of whose acts a great multitude, by mutual covenants one with another have made themselves every one the... | |
| Law - 1882 - 692 pages
...the Immortal God, our peace and defense. For, by this authority, given him by every particular man in the Commonwealth, he hath the use of so much power...commonwealth, which, to define it, is one person, of whose acts a great multitude, by mutual covenants one with another, have made themselves every one... | |
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