 | James Thacher - Plymouth (Mass.) - 1832 - 460 pages
...frame such just and equal laws and oidinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient, for...good of the colony, unto which we promise all due subjection and obedience. In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names, at Cape Cod, the... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 650 pages
...and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to- time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the...good of the colony ; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. This is the earliest American constitution, and is dated Nov. 11, 1620, and... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pages
...and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the...good of the colony ; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience." This is the earliest Arncriruii constitution, and is dated Nov. 11, Ki'JO,... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 626 pages
...such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, ronstitutions and offices, as shall be thought most moot and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due subjection and obedience." and Massachusetts, like Virginia, was thus taken into the royal hands. Such,... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1834 - 530 pages
...equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most convenient for the general good of the colony. Unto which we promise all due submission and obedience." This instrument was signed by the whole body of men, forty-one in number,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1834 - 532 pages
...equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most convenient for the general good of the colony. Unto which we promise all due submission and obedience." This instrument was signed by the whole body of men, forty-one in number,... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 620 pages
...enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the...good of the colony, unto which we promise all due subjection and obedience." and Massachusetts, like Virginia, was thus taken into the royal hands. Such,... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Civics - 1835 - 316 pages
...and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the...good of the colony ; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience." This was the earliest American constitution, and was signed by 4 1 persons.... | |
 | James Thacher - Indians of North America - 1835 - 426 pages
...frame such just and equal laws and ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the...good of the colony, unto which we promise all due subjection and obedience. In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names, at Cape Cod, the... | |
 | Maine. Legislature - 1844 - 1148 pages
...and frame such just and equal laws and ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices from time to time as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the...good of the colony, unto which we promise all due subjection and obedience. In witness whereof, &.C. &.C. Baylies, in commenting upon this compact observes... | |
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Covenant and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions... 
