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... King's letter and Requirements - Ecclesias- tical Affairs - Baptism , Independence of Churches - Baptists oppress ... King , and contend for Charter Rights - Dispute with Commissioners- Treatment of Commissioners in Plymouth - Religious ...
... King's letter and Requirements - Ecclesias- tical Affairs - Baptism , Independence of Churches - Baptists oppress ... King , and contend for Charter Rights - Dispute with Commissioners- Treatment of Commissioners in Plymouth - Religious ...
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... King , and not by the Governor - Expedition to the West Indies- Line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire run - Line run be- tween Rhode Island - Governor Shirley - His Character - War be- tween England and France - Disputes and ...
... King , and not by the Governor - Expedition to the West Indies- Line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire run - Line run be- tween Rhode Island - Governor Shirley - His Character - War be- tween England and France - Disputes and ...
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... King - Political views of Gov. Bernard - Different opinions among the People - Dispute in granting compensation for the losses by the Mob - Trade - Arrival of British Troops - Dispute about Expenses of the Troops . CHAPTER XIII ...
... King - Political views of Gov. Bernard - Different opinions among the People - Dispute in granting compensation for the losses by the Mob - Trade - Arrival of British Troops - Dispute about Expenses of the Troops . CHAPTER XIII ...
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... King James , or the English government , to exercise civil and political authority ; nor had they , as yet , any patent or grant of the territory , where they landed and proposed to remain . But they knew that their king claimed the ...
... King James , or the English government , to exercise civil and political authority ; nor had they , as yet , any patent or grant of the territory , where they landed and proposed to remain . But they knew that their king claimed the ...
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... king's colors , with the pretence that it was a relique of popish superstition . It was supposed he was urged to this imprudent act , by Roger Williams , who then resided in Salem . Mr. Endicot was further punished for this conduct , by ...
... king's colors , with the pretence that it was a relique of popish superstition . It was supposed he was urged to this imprudent act , by Roger Williams , who then resided in Salem . Mr. Endicot was further punished for this conduct , by ...
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Page 435 - God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof 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 obedience.
Page 434 - King, defender of the faith, &c., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and the advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Page 471 - The power we allude to is rather the police power, the power vested in the legislature by the constitution, to make, ordain, and establish all manner of wholesome and reasonable laws, statutes, and ordinances, either with penalties or without, not repugnant to the constitution, as they shall judge to be for the good and welfare of the commonwealth, and of the subjects of the same.
Page 422 - An incessant attention to preserve inviolate those exalted rights and liberties of human nature, for which they have fought and bled, and without which the high rank of a rational being is a curse instead of a blessing. " An unalterable determination to promote and cherish, between the respective states, that union and national honor, so essentially necessary to their happiness, and the future dignity of the American empire.
Page 472 - Senate shall respectively be sworn, truly and impartially to try and determine the charge in question, according to evidence.
Page 403 - We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, to establish justice, to insure domestic tranquillity, to provide for the common defence, to promote the general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Page 471 - Court, to prorogue the same from time to time, not exceeding ninety days in any one recess; and to call it together sooner than the time to which it may be adjourned or prorogued, if the welfare of the Commonwealth shall require the same...
Page 435 - 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 obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the llth of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France and Ireland the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini 1620.
Page 474 - All the laws which have heretofore been adopted, used and approved in the Province, Colony or State of Massachusetts Bay, and usually practised on in the courts of law, shall still remain and be in full force, until altered or repealed by the legislature; such parts only excepted as are repugnant to the rights and liberties contained in this constitution.
Page 434 - He took occasion also miserably to bewail the state and condition of the Reformed Churches, who were come to a period in religion and would go no further than the instruments of their Reformation.