| Henry Baldwin - 1837 - 230 páginas
...from, or granted by them." 1 Rev. Laws, 249. M'Cauley's Hist. NY 231, 2. April, 1777. In Massachusetts. "The people of this commonwealth, have the sole and...themselves, as a free, sovereign, and independent state, and for ever hereafter shall exercise 11 and enjoy every power, jurisdiction and right, which is not or... | |
| Robert Walsh - 1888 - 576 páginas
...government, as the constitution of government.' In this very bill of rights, the people are declared ' to have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves, as a free, sovereign and independent state;' and that ' they have an incontcstible, (inalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government, and... | |
| Maryland in Liberia, Maryland State Colonization Society - 1837 - 186 páginas
...the community, shall be equally under the protection of the laws; and no subordination or preference of any one sect or denomination to another, shall ever be established by law; nor shall any religious test be required as a qualification for any office or trust in the community;... | |
| Thomas Whittemore - 1840 - 424 páginas
...and denominations, demeaning themselves peaceably, and as good citizens of the Commonwealth, shall be equally under the protection of the law ; and no subordination...denomination to. another shall ever be established by law." III. REVISED STATUTES, CHAPTER 20. " Sect. 2. All parishes or religious societies, whether corporate... | |
| Edward Everett - 1840 - 440 páginas
...pertaining to them." The other plan is announced, in clear terms, in the Constitution of Massachusetts : " The people of this Commonwealth have the sole and...themselves, as a free, sovereign, and independent, State." Now, it might be thought, that, even on the theory of government which Charles sealed with his blood,... | |
| Maine - 1841 - 922 páginas
...of the state, shall be equally under the protection of the laws, and no subordination nor preference of any one sect or denomination to another shall ever be established by law, nor shall any religious test be required Religious test» * prohibited. о Freedom of speech and publication.... | |
| 1841 - 460 páginas
...denomination of Christians, demeaning themselves peaceably, and as good subjects of the commonwealth, shall be equally under the protection of the law ; and no subordination of any sect or denomination to another shall ever be established by law. 4. The people of the commonwealth... | |
| Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1833 - 424 páginas
...of Christians, demeaning them T selves peaceably, and as good subjects of the Commonwealth, shall be equally under the protection of the law; and no subordination...denomination, to another, shall ever be established by law." A portion of the community have been uneasy under this part of the Constitution from the beginning.... | |
| George Barstow - 1842 - 504 páginas
...towards the support of the teacher or teachers of another persuasion, sect, or denomination, and that no subordination of any one sect or denomination, to another, shall ever be established by law." Notwithstand- CHAF. ing these clear provisions, the statute of Anne ,^_L continued substantially to... | |
| Maine. Legislature. Senate - 1842 - 130 páginas
...of the state, shall be equally under the protection of the laws, and no subordination or preference of any one sect or denomination to another shall ever be established by law, nor shall any religious test be required as a qualification for" any office or trust, under this state;... | |
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