 | William Winterbotham - America - 1796 - 580 pages
...themfelves as a free, fovereign, and independent State; and do, and for ever hereafter fhall, ejeercife and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not, or may not hereafter be by them cxprefsly delegated to the United States of America, in Congrefs affcmblcch V. All power rending originally... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). Common Council - Boston (Mass.) - 1822 - 148 pages
...Commonwealth have the sole and sovereign. exclusive right of governing themselves, as a Free, Sove88 after shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction,...expressly delegated to the United States of America, in Congress assembled. ARTICLE V. All power residing originally in the people, and being derived from... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1826 - 126 pages
...shall ever be established by law. IV. The people of this Commonwealth have the sole and ex^ , elusive right of governing themselves, as a Free, Sovereign,...expressly delegated to the United States of America, in Congress assembled. V. * All power residing originally in the people, and being derived from them,... | |
 | Constitutions - 1828 - 494 pages
...law: and no suhordination of any sect or denomination to another shall ever he estahlished hy law. 4. The people of this commonwealth have the sole and...free, sovereign, and independent state; and do, and for ever hereafter shall exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not, or... | |
 | Nathan Dane - Law - 1829 - 956 pages
...first article, 4th section, they, (that is the people of Massachusetts) use these words, to wit : " The people of this commonwealth, have the sole and...jurisdiction, and right, which is not, or may not hereafter br, by them, expressly delegated to the United Stales of America, in Congress assembled. Here is the... | |
 | Nathan Dane - Law - 1829 - 982 pages
...first article, 4th section, , they, (that is the people of Massachusetts) use these words, to wit: "The people of this commonwealth, have the sole and...exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, irhich istiot, . or may not hereafter be, Ity them, ej/tns.-h/ di legated to the United States of America,... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1832 - 276 pages
...may be paid to the teacher or teachers of the parish or precinct where he usually resides. IV.—THE people of this Commonwealth have the sole and exclusive...enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, which are not, or may not hereafter, be by them expressly delegated to the United States of America, in Congress... | |
 | New Hampshire Historical Society - 1832 - 744 pages
...of government, established in 1784, ia founded on these two grand principles, viz. That " the people have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves, as a free, sovereign, and independent State; exercising and enjoymg every power, jurisdiction and right pertaining thereto, which is not, or may... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1833 - 806 pages
...subordination of any one sect or denomination to another shall ever be established by law. IV. — THE people of this Commonwealth have the sole and...expressly delegated to the United States of America, in Congress assembled. V. — ALL power residing originally in the people, and being derived from them,... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 540 pages
...government, as the constitution of government." In this very bill of rights, the people are declared " to have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves,...as a free, sovereign, and independent state"; and that "they have an incontestible, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government, and... | |
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The people of this commonwealth have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves, as a free, sovereign, and independent state; and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not, or may... 
