 | Constitutional law - 1783 - 492 pages
...truly and fincerely acknowledge, profefs, teftify and declare, that the Commonwealth of MafTachufetts is, and of right ought to be, a Free, Sovereign, and Independent State ; and J do fwear, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the faid Commonwealth, and that I will defend... | |
 | Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...declaration, and oaths or affirmation, viz* — " I, AB do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testify, and declare, that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is, and of right ought to bey a free, sovereign and independent State ; and I do. swear, that 1 will bear true faith, and allegiance... | |
 | Massachusetts, William Charles White - Law - 1811 - 214 pages
...your clients. So help you God. DECLARATION. I, AB do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testify and declare, that the commonwealth of Massachusetts...attempts whatsoever : and that I do renounce and abjure aft allegiance, subjection and obedience^ to the king, queen, or govc^|ment of Great-Britain, (as the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1813 - 540 pages
...weaken or impair. The oath administered to me in my capacity of a legislator was, " that the state of Massachusetts is, and of right ought to be, a free, sovereign, and independent state;" and this solemn oath, taken before an assembled people, and in the presence of the Supreme Being, I consider... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1813 - 544 pages
...weaken or impair. The oath administered to me in my capacity of a legislator was, " that the state of Massachusetts is, and of right ought to be, a free, sovereign, and independent state;" ami this solemn oath, taken before an assembled people, and m the presence of the Supreme Being, I... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). Common Council - Boston (Mass.) - 1822 - 148 pages
...declaration, and oaths or affirmations, viz : "I, AB do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testify and declare, that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...Commonwealth, and that I will defend the same against traiterous conspiracies and all hostile attempts whatsoever: and that I do renounce and abjure all... | |
 | Alden Bradford - Massachusetts - 1822 - 1122 pages
...of the Senate ; " I shall be called upon to make a declaration, and I shall do it most cheerfully, that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is, and of...ought to be, a free, sovereign and independent State, — I shall also be called upon to make another declaration, with the same solemnity, to support the... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1823 - 686 pages
...following oaths and declarations : , "I, A. (!., do truly ami sincerely acki owledge, profess, testify, and declare, that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is, and of right ought to be a free, sove- Form, reign, and independent State ; and I do swear, that I will bear true faith and allegiance... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1826 - 126 pages
...declaration, and oaths or affirmations, viz. : "I, AB do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testify, and declare, that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...and allegiance to the said Commonwealth, and that 1 will defend the same against traitorous conspiracies, and all hostile attempts whatsoever : And that... | |
 | Constitutions - 1828 - 494 pages
...profess, testify, and declare, that the commonwealth of Massacbusetts is, and of right ought to he, a free, sovereign, and independent state; and I do swear that I will hear true faith and allegiance to the said commonwealth, and that I will defend the same against traitorous... | |
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I, AB do truly and sincerely acknowledge, profess, testify and declare, that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is, and of right ought to be, a free, sovereign and independent State; and I do swear, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the said... 
