 | Edwin Hall - Great Britain - 1846 - 460 pages
...by which they combine themselves into a " civil body politic," to enact, constitute and frame such equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and officers,...convenient for the general good of the colony ; unto which they promised all due submission and obedience." It was the first social compact in the world, entered... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1846 - 1018 pages
...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...colony ; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience." This is the earliest .American constitution, and is dated November 11, 1IS2O, and signed... | |
 | Joseph Ripley Chandler - Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony) - 1846 - 44 pages
...constitute, and frame such just and equal laws and ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient...good of the colony, unto which we promise all due subjection 20 and obedience. In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names, at Cape Cod,... | |
 | Alexis Poole - 1847 - 514 pages
...together into a civil body politick, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof do enact constitute...thought most meet and convenient for the general good of ihe colony ; into which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof, we have hereunto... | |
 | Edwin Hall - Puritans - 1847 - 460 pages
...civil body politic," to enact, constitute and frame such equal laws, ordinances, acts, conptiiuiions and officers, from time to time, as shall be thought...convenient for the general good of the colony ; unto which they promised all due submission and obedience." It was the first social compact in the world, entered... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1848 - 804 pages
...our helter ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws,...whereof we have hereunto subscribed our Names, at Cape Cod, the llth of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord, King James, of England,... | |
 | William Hubbard - Massachusetts - 1848 - 852 pages
...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,...whereof we have hereunto subscribed our Names, at Cape Cod, the llth of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord, King James, of England,... | |
 | Oliver Cromwell Gardiner - Campaign literature - 1848 - 356 pages
...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...which we promise all due submission and obedience." In these colonies and their offshoots, and in general, in those afterwards founded by emigration from... | |
 | Samuel Perkins - 1848 - 494 pages
...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...the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience." This instrument is signed by forty- one persons, and dated Nov. llth, 1620. CONSTITUTION.... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Constitutional history - 1839 - 384 pages
...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...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... | |
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... 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,... 
