...Resolution of the General Court of said State passed the fourteenth day of December last past, and acknowledging with grateful hearts the Goodness of...the United States, in the course of his Providence, au opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud or surprise, of entering into an explicit...

...acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the goodness of the great Legislator of the universe, in affording us, in the course of His providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud, violence, or surprise, of entering into an original, explicit, and solemn compact with each other ;...

...acknowledging with grateful hearts, the goodness of the Great Legislator of the Universe, in affording us, in the course of His Providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud, violence or surprize, of entering into an original, explicit, and solemn compact with each other; and...

...acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the goodness of the great Legislator of the universe, in affording us, in the course of His providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without frand, violence, or surprise, of entering into an original, explicit, and solemn compact with each...

...of October last past, — and acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the goodness of the Supreme Kuler of the universe in affording the people of the United...peaceably, without fraud or surprise, of entering into an^xplicit and solemn compact with each other, by assenting ln and ratifying a new? ^'Constitution,...

...States, in the course of his providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without force or surprise, of entering into an explicit and solemn...compact with each other, by assenting to and ratifying anew Constitution, &c., do assent to and ratify the said Constitution."2 And although many declarations...

...acknowledging with grateful hearts the goodness of the Great Legislator of the Universe in affording us, in the course of his Providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud, violence, or surprise, of entering into an original, explicit, and solemn compact with each other,...

...not a government. To refute this it is but necessary to give the very words used: " The Convention, acknowledging with grateful hearts the goodness of...a new constitution in order to form a more perfect union, . . . do, in the name and behalf of the people of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, assent...

...of the General Court of the said Commonwealth, passed the twenty-fifth day of October last past, and acknowledging with grateful hearts the goodness of...Universe in affording the people of the United States an opportunity deliberately and peacefully, without fraud, or surprise, of entering into an explicit...

...of the General Court of the said Commonwealth, passed the twenty fifth day of October last past, & acknowledging with grateful hearts, the goodness of...course of his providence an opportunity deliberately & peaceably without fraud or surprize of entering into an explicit & solemn Compact with each other...