 | Massachusetts - 1872 - 534 страници
...J another prohibited. IV. The people of this Commonwealth have the sole and night of «eifexclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign...delegated to the United States of America, in congress assembled. V. All power residing originally in the people, and being Accountability derived from them,... | |
 | Charles Harris - 1872 - 38 страници
...sovereign and independent State. Here is the passage : "The people of this Commonwealth have the sale and exclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign and independent State j and do and forever hereafter shall exercise and enjoy every power^ jurisdiction and right which is... | |
 | Caspar Thomas Hopkins - 1873 - 396 страници
...subordination of any one sect or denomination to another shall ever be established by law."* ART. IV. The people of this Commonwealth have the sole and...delegated to the United States of America, in Congress assembled. ART. V. All power residing originally in the people, and being derived from them, the several... | |
 | Caspar Thomas Hopkins - 1873 - 396 страници
...subordination of any one sect or denomination to another shall ever be established by law."* ART. IV. The people of this Commonwealth have the sole and...delegated to the United States of America, in Congress assembled. AET. V. All power residing originally in the people, and being derived from them, the several... | |
 | 1896 - 542 страници
...totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity and happiness require it."' Similarly: "The people of this Commonwealth have the sole and...governing themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent state;"2 and as such power is thus vested all officers of government, " whether legislative, executive,... | |
 | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - 1921 - 286 страници
...COMMONWEALTH IN CONNECTICUT1 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, and independent State; and having from their Ancestors derived a free and excellent Constitution of Government whereby the Legislature... | |
 | Vermont Bar Association - 1919 - 248 страници
...with this enactment, "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 and independent state, and, having from their ancestors derived a free and excellent constitution of... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations - 1973 - 360 страници
...Chistoolm v Georgia, 2 US (2 Dall.) 419, 470 (1893). The Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 provided, "The people of this commonwealth have the sole and...enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right which is not, ... by them expressly delegated to the United States ...."IB. POOBE, supra note 30, at 958. 270.... | |
 | Stephen L. Schechter - 1990 - 478 страници
...And no subordination of any one sect or denomination to another shall ever be established by law. IV. The people of this Commonwealth have the sole and...delegated to the United States of America, in Congress assembled. V. All power residing originally in the people, and being derived from them, the several... | |
 | Mark A. Noll Professor of History Wheaton College - 1989 - 418 страници
...and independent," declared Connecticut in converting its royal charter into a constitution in 1776, "have the sole and exclusive Right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent State. ..." :18 The preamble of the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 explicitly recognized the providence... | |
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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... 
