 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.  Iowa Engineer - Page 421905Full view - About this book
 | Enoch Cobb Wines - Bible and law - 1853 - 652 pages
...It declares : "The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals. It is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with...all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good."f The constitution of New York, framed in 1777, declares : " No authority shall, on any pretence... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1853 - 108 pages
...voluntary association of Body politic. individuals ; it is a social compact, by which the whole its nature. people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen...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. Constitutional Convention, Harvey Fowler - Constitutional conventions - 1853 - 860 pages
...association of individuals ; it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each atiitn, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall...be governed by certain laws for the common good." We have heard a good deal said here about the social compact, and the gentleman for Abington, (Mr.... | |
 | Wendell Phillips, Theodore Parker, Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Women - 1854 - 144 pages
...politic. * * * The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals ; it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with...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... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Women - 1854 - 160 pages
...politic. * * * The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals ; it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with...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... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1854 - 322 pages
...preamble to the Bill of Rights prefixed to the Constitution declares that " the body politic is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with...be governed by certain laws for the common good." Of course, then, each citizen who enters into such a compact has the same natural rights with every... | |
 | Constitutions, State - 1855 - 576 pages
...and happiness. The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals. It is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with...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... | |
 | Joshua Pollard Blanchard - United States - 1855 - 28 pages
...compact by which government is formed, there are not two, but only one party. When it said, that " the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole/5 we ask, Who is this "whole ?" We understand the whole, in this case, to be an imagined aggregation... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1858 - 442 pages
...by a voluntary association of individuals. It is a social compact by which the whole people covenant with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole...be governed by certain laws for the common good." Locke was among the first Englishmen to employ such language, (Locke on Government, chap, vii.) and... | |
 | Joseph Haven - History - 1859 - 362 pages
...Massachusetts : " The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals. It is a Social Compact, by which the whole people covenants with...be governed by certain laws for the common good." The constitution of Connecticut recognizes the same principle: " All men, when they form a social compact,... | |
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