 We, therefore, the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the goodness of the great Legislator of the universe, in affording us, in the course of his providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud, violence...  Debates in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1917-1918 - Page 201by Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - 1918Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - Constitutional history - 1868 - 862 pages
...hearts, the goodness of the Supreme Ruler of the Universe in affording the people of the United States, in the course of his providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud or surprise, of entering into an explicit and solemn compact with each other, by assenting to and ratifying... | |
 | Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - Congregational churches - 1870
...acknowledgment of God and of religion. In our own Commonwealth the Preamble to the Constitution says : " We therefore, the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging...goodness of the great Legislator of the Universe, and devoutly imploring His direction, do agree upon," &c. The second article in the Bill of Rights... | |
 | Massachusetts - Session laws - 1872
...interpretation and a faithful execution of them ; that every man may, at all times, find his security in them. We, therefore, the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the goodness of the groat Legislator of the universe, in affording us, in the course of his providence, an opportunity,... | |
 | Caspar Thomas Hopkins - United States - 1873 - 382 pages
...interpretation and a faithful execution of them; that every man may, at all times, find his security in them. We, therefore, the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging,...Legislator of the universe, in affording us, in the couise of His providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud, violence or surprise,... | |
 | Samuel T. Spear - 1876
...grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious liberty, * * * * declare." MASSACHUSETTS.—" We, therefore, the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging...goodness of the Great Legislator of the universe, * * * * and devoutly imploring his direction, * * * * ordain and establish the following declaration... | |
 | Samuel Thayer Spear - Church and education - 1876 - 393 pages
...grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious liberty, * * * * declare." MASSACHUSETTS. — " We, therefore, the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging...goodness of the Great Legislator of the universe, * * * * and devoutly imploring his direction, * * * * ordain and establish the following declaration... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court - Massachusetts - 1876
...interpretation, and a faithful execution of them ; that every man may, at all times, find his security in them. We, therefore, the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging with grateful hearts the goodness of thegreat Legislator of the universe, in affording us, in the course of his providence, an opportunity,... | |
 | William O. Bateman - Constitutional law - 1876 - 386 pages
...hearts, the goodness of the Supremo Euler of the Universe in affording the people of the United States, in the course of his providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud or surprise, of entering into an explicit and solemn compact with each other, by assenting to and ratifying... | |
 | New Hampshire (Colony) Probate Court - 1877
...hearts the Goodness of the Supreme Ruler of the Universe in affording the People of the United States, in the course of his Providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud or surprise, of entering into an explicit and solemn compact with each other, by assenting to and ratifying... | |
 | 1878
...establishment of liberty of conscience." Massachusetts, in the Preamble to her Constitution, "acknowledges with grateful hearts the goodness of the great Legislator of the Universe," and implores his direction. It is a significant fact that similar expressions of gratitude to God,... | |
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