 The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals: it 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.  The Central Law Journal - Page 1911918Full view - About this book
 | Boston (Mass.). Common Council - Boston (Mass.) - 1822 - 148 pages
...prosperity, and happiness. The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals. It is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants...shall be governed by certain laws for the common good. It is the duty of the people, therefore, in framing a Constitution of Government, to provide for an... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1826 - 126 pages
...prosperity, and happiness. The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals. It is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants...shall be governed by certain laws for the common good. It is the duty of the people, therefore, in framing a Constitution of Government, to provide for an... | |
 | United States - 1827 - 634 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - Digital images - 1831 - 52 pages
...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 covenants...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. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1832 - 276 pages
...happiness and prosperity. The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals: It is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants...shall be governed by certain laws for the common good. It is the duty of the people, therefore, in framing a Constitution of Government, to provide for an... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1833 - 806 pages
...prosperity and happiness. THE body-politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals : It is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants...shall be governed by certain laws for the common good. It is the duty of (he people, therefore, in framing a Constitution of Government, to provide for an... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 564 pages
...Massachusetts asserts, that " the body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals ; that it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants...be governed by certain laws for the common good;" and that in the same preamble, the people acknowledge with grateful hearts, that Providence had afforded... | |
 | John Codman, Charles Russell Codman, Francis Codman - 1837 - 442 pages
...by which " the whole people covenants with 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 part of this solemn covenant, by a just and daily observance of the... | |
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