 | Kenneth Cauthen - Philosophy - 1987 - 226 pages
...Massachusetts constitution states: "The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals: It is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants...be governed by certain laws for the common good." 10 Thomas Jefferson was chosen to write the Declaration of Independence because of his "peculiar felicity... | |
 | Robert A. Goldwin - Law - 1987 - 168 pages
...by John Adams in 1779): 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... | |
 | Charles H. Sheldon - Judges - 420 pages
...that the courts must act upon principle not upon what the legislature thought best. A body politic is a social compact by which the whole people covenants...shall be governed by certain laws for the common good. This does not confer power upon the whole people to control rights which are purely an exclusive private.... | |
 | Stephen L. Schechter - Business & Economics - 1990 - 478 pages
...prosperity and happiness.1 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... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf, Nicholas Greenwood Onuf - History - 1993 - 244 pages
...Constitution of 1780, "the body-politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals: It is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants...be governed by certain laws for the common good." "A CONSTITUTION OR FRAME OF GOVERNMENT, Agreed upon by the Delegates of the People of the STATE OF... | |
 | Robert J. Cottrol - History - 1994 - 484 pages
...iPeter Laslett ed . l960l l88 For example, the Massachusetts Constitution of l780 described itself as "a social compact, by which the whole people covenants...be governed by certain Laws for the common good." MASS. CONST, of l780. pmbl., repnnted in I AMEfOCAN CONSTITUTIONS 62l lFranklin B. Hough ed., Albany.... | |
 | Charles S. Hyneman - History - 1994 - 332 pages
...the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780. The body politic, he wrote, is formed by a social compact "in which the whole people covenants with each citizen and each citizen with the whole people" (Preamble). "It is the right of every citizen" to be tried by free, impartial, and independent judges;... | |
 | William Quirk, R. Randall Bridwell - Law - 1995 - 162 pages
...Constitution of 1780 provides: "The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals: It is a social compact by which the whole people covenants...be governed by certain laws for the common good." The necessary change will come one way or another. It may come, as Jefferson and Madison envisioned,... | |
 | Dennis C. Mueller - Political Science - 1996 - 395 pages
...design. JOHN STUART MILL 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. JOHN ADAMS (as drafted for the preamble of the Massachusetts Constitution) The historical, evolutionary... | |
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The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of indi[viduals: it is a social compact, by which the whole people cove'nants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good. 
