 | James Creighton Odiorne - Freemasonry - 1830 - 314 pages
...religious right, the people of these United States not only cast off the yoke of foreign domination, but " the whole people covenants with each citizen, and...be governed by certain laws for the common good." We consider it therefore, the duty of every citizen to watch for the public welfare; to sound the alarm... | |
 | James Creighton Odiorne - Freemasonry - 1830 - 292 pages
...religious right, the people of these United States not only cast off the yoke of foreign domination, but " the whole people covenants with each citizen, and...be governed by certain laws for the common good." We consider it therefore, the duty of every citizen to watch for the public welfare ; to sound the... | |
 | Virginia. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1890 - 928 pages
...the power of enjoying in safety and tranquillity, their natural rights." It asserts, that u The body is formed by a voluntary association of individuals. It is a social compact." And in the seventh article of the Declaration of Rights, these doctrines are repeated and fortified... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - Digital images - 1831 - 52 pages
...Commonwealth it is declared, that the body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals ; that it is a social compact, by which the whole people...be governed by certain laws, for the common good. The body politic of the United States was formed by the voluntary association of the people of the... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1833 - 806 pages
...government, and to take measures necessary for their safety, prosperity and happiness. THE body-politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals...certain laws for the common good. It is the duty of (he people, therefore, in framing a Constitution of Government, to provide for an equitable mode of... | |
 | Law - 1833 - 514 pages
...of Massachusetts, which in its preamble contains the declaration already quoted, that government " is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants...with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole government;" are we to construe that compact, after the adoption of the constitution, as still a contract,... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 564 pages
...constitution of Massachusetts, which in its preamble contains the declaration already quoted, that government "is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants...with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole government;" are we to construe that compact, after the adoption of the constitution, as still a contract,... | |
 | Richard Sullivan Fay - Anti-Catholicism - 1835 - 98 pages
...it, the power of enjoying in safety and tranquillity their mutual rights and the blessings of life." "It is a social compact, by which the whole people...citizen and each citizen with the whole people, that we shall be governed by certain laws for the common good." "Article 1. All men are born free and equal... | |
 | John Codman, Charles Russell Codman, Francis Codman - 1837 - 442 pages
...reason, especially, can they he expected to relinquish their share in the fundamental principle of our social compact, by which " the whole people covenants...each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, 414 that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good." Feeling that they perform their... | |
 | Benjamin Dole - Free thought - 1838 - 52 pages
...enjoying, in safety and tranquillity, their natural rights, and the blessings of life." " The body-politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals...be governed by certain laws for the common good." In the first, seventh, eighth and eighteenth articles of the Bill of Rights, it is found written :... | |
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is a social compact by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good. 
