...principle not upon what the legislature thought best. A body politic is a social compact by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen...shall be governed by certain laws for the common good. This does not confer power upon the whole people to control rights which are purely an exclusive private....

...the wbole people, that att may be governed by certain laws fur the common good. It is the duty of tbe people, therefore, in framing a constitution of government,...faithful execution of them; that every man may, at aU times, and find bis security in them. Preamble, Constitution of tbe Commonwealth of Massachusetts...

...citizen with the whale people, that att may be governed by certain laws for tbe common good. It is tbe duty of the people, therefore, in framing a constitution...of government, to provide for an equitable mode of malting laws, as u-eU as for an impartial interpretation, and a faithful execution of them; tbat every...

...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...be governed by certain laws for the common good." "A CONSTITUTION OR FRAME OF GOVERNMENT, Agreed upon by the Delegates of the People of the STATE OF...

...example, the Massachusetts Constitution of l780 described itself as "a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each Citizen, and each Citizen...be governed by certain Laws for the common good." MASS. CONST, of l780. pmbl., repnnted in I AMEfOCAN CONSTITUTIONS 62l lFranklin B. Hough ed., Albany....

...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...be governed by certain laws for the common good." The necessary change will come one way or another. It may come, as Jefferson and Madison envisioned,...

...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...shall be governed by certain laws for the common good. JOHN ADAMS (as drafted for the preamble of the Massachusetts Constitution) The historical, evolutionary...

...the whole people covenants with each citizen and each citizen with the whole people that all snail be governed by certain laws for the common good. It is the duty of the people, therefore, in fram"Id., at 2869 (May 29, 1866). 3Id., at 3040 (June 8, 1866). 4Id.. at 2893 (May 30, 1866). sId.,...

...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 snail be governed by certain laws for the common good. It is the duty of the people, therefore, in...

...Adams's Massachusetts Constitution of 1780: The body politic is ... a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen...be governed by certain laws for the common good.' Legitimate government, then, is established by voluntary agreement of free individuals. In the government...