 | Constitutions - 1828 - 494 pages
...law: and no suhordination of any sect or denomination to another shall ever he estahlished hy law. 4. The people of this commonwealth have the sole and...themselves, as a free, sovereign, and independent state; and do, and for ever hereafter shall exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, which... | |
 | Nathan Dane - Law - 1829 - 956 pages
...first article, 4th section, they, (that is the people of Massachusetts) use these words, to wit : " The people of this commonwealth, have the sole and...themselves, as a free, sovereign and independent State ; and do, and forever hereafter, shall exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, which... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1832 - 276 pages
...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 exclusive...themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent state ; and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, which... | |
 | New Hampshire Historical Society - 1832 - 744 pages
...of government, established in 1784, ia founded on these two grand principles, viz. That " the people have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves, as a free, sovereign, and independent State; exercising and enjoymg every power, jurisdiction and right pertaining thereto, which is not, or may... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1833 - 806 pages
...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...themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent state ; and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, which... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1833 - 540 pages
...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 incontestible, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government,... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - Constitutional history - 1837 - 230 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - Constitutional law - 1837 - 236 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1888 - 576 pages
...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,... | |
 | Edward Everett - Education - 1840 - 440 pages
...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,... | |
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The people of this commonwealth 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... 
