...secure the good order and preservation of their government, the people of this commonwealth have a right to invest their legislature with power to authorize...require, and the legislature shall, from time to time, authoriza and require the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other. hodies politic, or religious...

...with power to authorize and require the several towns, parishes, &c., " to maie suitable provision for the institution of the public worship of God, and for the support and maintenance of public protest^nt teachers of piety, religion, and morality, in all cases, where such provision shall not...

...this, we observe, 2. That the Constitution secures to them this right. The Constitution says, " that the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, shall, at all tir"es, have the exclusive right, " &.c. The only question is, can Congregational churches...

...article of the bill of rights prefixed to the Constitution of Massachusetts, it is provided, " that the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, shall at all times, have the exclusive right of electing their public teachers, and of contracting...

...as it originally stood, the legislature were authorized to require of the several parishes and towns to make suitable provision, at their own expense,...morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily ; also to enjoin upon all the subjects (this last word is used in the Constitution)...

...summer of 1780, the new Constitution for the State went into effect, in which it was provided, " that the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, shall, at all times, have the exclusive right of electing1 their public teachers, and of contracting...

...duty of all men in society, publicly and " at stated seasons, to worship the Supreme " Being — that the legislature shall from time " to time, authorize and require, the several " towns, parishes, &c. to make suitable pro" vision at their own expense, for the institu" tion of the public worship...

...several " towns, parishes, &c. to make suitable prou vision at their own expense, for the in.sl.itn" tion of the public worship of God, and for " the support and maintenance of the public • Cliaiming's Election Sermon. " protestant teachers of piety, religion, and " morality,...

...Commonwealth have a right to invest their Legislature with power to authorize and require, and their Legislature shall, from time to time, authorize and require, the several towns, parishes, precincts, or other bodies politic, or religious societies, to make suitable provision, at their own expense,...

...secure the good order and preservation of their government, the people of this commonwealth have a right to invest their Legislature with power to authorize...morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily. And the people of the commonwealth have also a right to, and do, invest their...