| Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...appointed to serve ; and such ought to be fully compensated for their travel, time and attendance. XXII. The LIBERTY OF THE PRESS is essential to the security of freedom in a State : It ought therefore, to be inviolably preserved. XXIII. Retrospective laws are highly injurious, oppressive,... | |
| Massachusetts - 1826 - 126 pages
...such as relate to mariners' wages, the Legislature shall hereafter find it necessary to alter it. XVI. The liberty of the press is essential to the security...it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this Commonwealth. XVII. • The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence. And... | |
| Constitutions - 1828 - 494 pages
...serve; and sucli ought to he fully compensated for their travel, time, and attendance. 22. The liherty of the press is essential to the security of freedom in a state: it ought, therefore, to he inviolahly preserved. 23. Retrospective laws are highly injurious, oppressive, and... | |
| John Winslow Whitman - Freedom of the press - 1829 - 314 pages
...the constitution did not think so. By declaring in the sixteenth article of the Bill of Rights that ' the liberty of the press is essential to the security of freedom in a state, and ought not therefore to be restrained in this commonwealth ' — they placed the rights of the press... | |
| Joseph Blunt - History - 1835 - 624 pages
...intentions. The sixteenth article of the declaration of rights, contained in the former, asserts, that " the liberty of the press is essential to the security...; it ought not therefore to be restrained in this commonwealth." The fifteenth article in the constitution of the latter declares in still stronger terms,... | |
| Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1832 - 276 pages
...relate to mariners wages, the legislature shall hereafter find it necessary to alter it. XVI.—THE liberty of the press is essential to the security...it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this Commonwealth. XVII.—THE people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence. And... | |
| Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1833 - 806 pages
...as relate to mariners wages, the legislature shall hereafter find it necessary to alter it. XVI. — THE liberty of the press is essential to the security...it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this Commonwealth. XVII. — THE people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence. And... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 800 pages
...a state government, whose constitution, like that, for instance, of Massachusetts, declares, that " the liberty of the press is essential to the security...it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this commonwealth." What is the true interpretation of this clause? Does it prohibit the legislature from... | |
| Massachusetts. Attorney General's Office - Attorneys general's opinions - 1915 - 396 pages
...XVI. of the Declaration of Rights, secures the liberty of the press in the following language: — The liberty of the press is essential to the security...it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this commonwealth. Notwithstanding the fact that the liberty of the press is thus secured against restraint,... | |
| Andrew Dunlap - Trials (Blasphemy) - 1834 - 278 pages
...not disturb the public peace or obstruct others in their religious worship." Article 16th, says, — "The liberty of the press is essential to the security...; IT OUGHT NOT THEREFORE TO BE RESTRAINED IN THIS COMMONWEALTH." The 6th Section of the 6th Chapter of the Constitution of the State, is as follows:... | |
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