 | Massachusetts - 1860 - 1158 страници
...exclusive government se- right of governing themselves, as a free, sovereign and independent cnred- increased to seven hundred and seventy thousand,...respectively to the said numbers above mentioned. assembled. Accountability V. All power residing originally in the people, and being derived oiNiii... | |
 | California State Teachers' Institute - 1861 - 498 страници
...Constitution of Massachusetts, as opposed to the declaration of Charles the First, in the following words : " The people of this Commonwealth have the sole and...themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent State." A section of the Massachusetts Colony Laws of sixteen hundred and ^forty-two, reads as follows : negligent... | |
 | 1861 - 420 страници
...the colony of Massachusetts Bay was declaring to the world the democratically opposite doctrine, that "The people of this commonwealth have the sole and...themselves as a free, sovereign and independent state." By our form of government, we are shut up to the necessity of educating the vhole people; and any denial... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1862 - 448 страници
...The people of this Commonwealth have the sole and Right or % • • f, f «^iif • erumeut secured. exclusive right of governing themselves as a free,...delegated to the United States of America, in Congress assembled. V. All power residing originally in the people, and being Accountahility of j-jr'.u ,, 6,... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1862 - 450 страници
...Rtei>t of «ir-govexclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign eruc"!ntllecuredand independent State ; and do, and forever hereafter...delegated to the United States of America, in Congress assembled. V. All power residing originally in the people, and being Accountability or derived from... | |
 | James Williams - 1862 - 538 страници
...exclusive right of governing themselves, as a free, sovereign, and independent State, and for ever hereafter shall exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction,...delegated to the United States of America in Congress assembled. Sec. 7. ... The people alone have an incontestible, unalienable, and indefeasible right... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - 1862 - 438 страници
...following state constitutional declarations. The Massachusetts and New Hampshire constitutions assert — " The people of this commonwealth have the sole and...free, sovereign, and independent state ; and do, and for ever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not, or... | |
 | Rhode Island - 1862 - 1508 страници
...the colony of Massachusetts Bay was declaring to the world the democratically opposite doctrine, that "The people of this commonwealth have the sole and...themselves as a free, sovereign and independent state." By our form of government, we are shut up to the necessity of educating the whole people ; and any... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - 1862 - 854 страници
...preamble is as follows: — The people of this State, being by the Providence of God free and independent, have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign nnd independent State ; and having from their ancestors derived a free and excellent Constitution of... | |
 | John Stephen Wright, John Holmes Agnew - 1863 - 230 страници
...the eole and exclusive right of governing themselves, as a free, tovereign and independent Stale : and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and...delegated to the United States of America, in Congress assembled. And further, the following compact is introduced at the head of Part II: The People inhabiting... | |
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The people of this Common-wealth have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign and independent State ; and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction and right, •which is not, or may... 
