 | Enoch Cobb Wines - 1853 - 652 Seiten
...declares : "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,...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 Seiten
...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 - 1853 - 860 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1854 - 160 Seiten
...* * 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...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 - 1854 - 322 Seiten
...the Bill of Rights prefixed to the Constitution declares that " the body politic is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen,...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... | |
 | Wendell Phillips, Theodore Parker, Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1854 - 144 Seiten
...* * 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...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... | |
 | 1855 - 576 Seiten
...happiness. 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,...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 - 1855 - 28 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 - 1859 - 396 Seiten
...Massachusetts : " 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,...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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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. 
