 ... to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and...  A Chronological History of New-England: In the Form of Annals, Being a ... - Page 171by Thomas Prince - 1826 - 439 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Andrew White Young - Constitutional history - 1839 - 384 pages
...such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good...colony ; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience." This was the earliest American constitution, and was signed by 41 persons. It was in... | |
 | Salma Hale - United States - 1848 - 392 pages
...equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most convenient for the general good of the colony. Unto which we promise all due subminaion and obedience." All the men, forty-one in number, signed this first of written constitutions:... | |
 | Joseph Pritts - Frontier and pioneer life - 1849 - 774 pages
...such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and officers, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good...submission and obedience. In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names, at New Plymouth, on the 10th day of December, AD, 1620. JOHN CARVER,... | |
 | E. Michael Rusten, Sharon O. Rusten - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 840 pages
...such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good...Cod, the 1 1th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign King James of England . . . Anno Domini 1620. Before leaving the Nedierlands, the... | |
 | Claude Macquet, Didier Vrancken - Change - 2003 - 312 pages
...such just and aqual laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good...promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereoff we have héreunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 1 1th of November, in the year of... | |
 | Forrest Church - History - 2003 - 196 pages
...such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good...the Colony: unto which we promise all due submission and obedience." Noting the contrast between this compact and the laws of the old country, Tocqueville... | |
 | Harry Paul Jeffers - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 344 pages
...enacted "such just laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good...the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience." Of the landing on Cape Cod on Monday, December 11, 1620, Bradford wrote, "Being thus... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Political Science - 2003 - 758 pages
...just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and officers, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good...the Colony: unto which we promise all due submission and obedience,' &c.9 This happened in 1620, and from that time forwards the emigration went on. The... | |
 | Lon Cantor - History - 2003 - 244 pages
...equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices from time to time, as shall be thought most convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience." Two major principles embodied in the Compact are important: 1 . The colonists were... | |
 | Fred W. Scott - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 495 pages
...such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions of Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good...have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France and... | |
| |
