 | Alonzo J. Fogg - 1874 - 740 pages
...stole as if this constitution had not been made. ART. 7. The people of this State have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves as a free,...exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction and right pertaining thereto, which is not or may nut hereafter be by them expressly delegated to the United... | |
 | William Batchelder Greene - History - 1875 - 286 pages
...the Commonwealth of Massachusetts." And again : "The people of this Commonwealth have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves, as a free,...jurisdiction, and right, which is not, or may not be hereafter, by them expressly delegated to the United States of America in Congress assembled." Nevertheless,... | |
 | New Hampshire - 1875 - 1248 pages
...and without such an equivalent the surrender is void. VII. The people of this State have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves as a free,...exercise, and enjoy every power, jurisdiction and right pertaining thereto, which is not, or may not hereafter be by them expressly delegated to the United... | |
 | William Batchelder Greene - History - 1875 - 284 pages
...shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not, or may not be hereafter, by them expressly delegated to the United States of America in Congress assembled." Nevertheless, and as if to make manifest a want of foresight in the framers of her Constitution,... | |
 | William O. Bateman - Constitutional law - 1876 - 416 pages
...same, in such manner as they may think proper.1 3. The people of this commonwealth have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves, as a free,...by them expressly delegated to the United States of America.1 4. All power residing originally in, and being derived from the people, all the magistrates... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1876 - 844 pages
...free, sovereign, ana independent State ; and they shall forever nereaftcr exercise and eujoy every power, jurisdiction, and right which is not or may...delegated to the United States of America in Congress assembled. " And in the closing section of their Declaration of Rights: • In the government of this... | |
 | Charles Upham Bell - Law - 1876 - 216 pages
...'.i To govern themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent State ; and to forever exereise every power, jurisdiction, and right which is not or may...expressly delegated to the United States of America. To whom are nil officers of the State accountable ? To the people. For what purpose is government instituted... | |
 | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - Peace - 1921 - 282 pages
...CONNECTICUT1 The People of this State, being by the Providence of God, free and independent, have the sole and exclusive Right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent State; and having from their Ancestors derived a free and excellent Constitution of Government whereby the Legislature... | |
 | Social sciences - 1896 - 542 pages
...no. 12, Mar. 21, 1776. 'Art. 4. Cf. New Hampshire (1784): "The people of this state have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent state, . . . ." Poore, 1281. Cf. Pennsylvania : " the community hath an indubitable, unalienable and indefeasible... | |
 | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - 1921 - 286 pages
...CONNECTICUT1 The People of this State, being by the Providence of God, free and independent, have the sole and exclusive Right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent State; and having from their Ancestors derived a free and excellent Constitution of Government whereby the Legislature... | |
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The people of this commonwealth have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves, as a free, sovereign, and independent state; and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not, or may... 
