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" The people, inhabiting the territory formerly called the Province of Massachusetts Bay, do hereby solemnly and mutually agree with each other, to form themselves into a free, sovereign, and independent body politic or state, by the name of THE COMMONWEALTH... "
The Future: A Political Essay - Page 44
by Montgomery Hunt Throop - 1864 - 335 pages
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The Constitutions of the United States: According to the Latest Amendments ...

Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...FORM or GOVERNMENT. THE people inhabiting the territory formerly called the Province of New-Hampshire, do hereby solemnly and mutually agree with each other,...themselves into a free, sovereign, and independent Body-Politic, or State, by the name of the State of JVetv-Mampshirr. GENERAL COURT. The Supreme Legislative...
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Construction Construed, and Constitutions Vindicated

John Taylor - United States - 1820 - 378 pages
...government of this state. The people inhabiting the territory formerly called the province of New Hampshire, do hereby solemnly and mutually agree with each other...themselves into a free, sovereign and independent body politick or state. That the state may be equally represented. I do swear that I will bear faith and...
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Official Papers, Printed for the Common Council of the City of Boston ...

Boston (Mass.). Common Council - Boston (Mass.) - 1822 - 148 pages
...them ; to the end, it may be a government of laws, and not of men. PART II. THE FRAME OF GOVERNMENT. THE people, inhabiting the territory, formerly called...Independent Body Politic, or State, by the name of the COMMOMWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. CHAPTER I. THE LEGISLATIVE POWER. SECTION I. THE GENERAL COURT. ARTICLE...
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The Constitution of the State, Adopted 1780

Massachusetts - 1826 - 126 pages
...them ; to the end, it may be a government of laws, and not of men. PART XI. THE FRAME OF GOVERNMENT. THE people, inhabiting the territory, formerly called...by the name of the COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. CHAPTER I. TEE LEGISLATIVE POWER. SECTION I. THE GENERAL COURT. ARTICLE I. THE department of Legislation...
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The American's Guide: Comprising the Declaration of Independence : the ...

Constitutions - 1828 - 494 pages
...GOVERNMENT. The people inhahiting the territory formerly called the province of Massachnsetts Bay, do herehy solemnly and mutually agree with each other to form...themselves into a free, sovereign, and independent hody politic, or state, hy the name of— The Commonwealth of Masachusetts. CHAP. 1.— SECTION 1....
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Journal of the Convention for Framing a Constitution of Government for the ...

Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1832 - 276 pages
...the word " being " be substituted in lieu of the words " to form themselves into," and the words " do hereby solemnly and mutually agree with each other to form themselves into," be transposed, and stand immediately after the word " State," and the words " a Government," be inserted...
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Documents Printed by Order of the Senate

Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1833 - 806 pages
...Government. THE people, inhabiting the territory formerly called the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, do hereby solemnly and mutually agree with each other,...themselves into a free, sovereign, and independent body-politic or state, by the name of THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. CHAPTER I. The Legislative...
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The True Republican: Containing the Inaugural Addresses, Together with the ...

Presidents - 1841 - 460 pages
...them : to the end that it maybe a.government of laws, and not of men. PART II. Frame of Government. The people inhabiting the territory formerly called...the name of — The Commonwealth of Massachusetts. CHAPTER I. SECTION 1. — THE LEGISLATIVE POWER. T/ie General Court. Article 1. The department of legislation...
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Documents Printed by Order of the Senate

Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1841 - 906 pages
...to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men. PART THE SECOND. The Frame of Government. The people, inhabiting the territory formerly called...themselves into a free, sovereign, and independent body-politic or stale, by the name of THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. CHAPTER I. The Legislative...
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The North American Review, Volume 52

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1841 - 740 pages
...during the period which has passed since the adoption of the constitution, by which the " people agreed to form themselves into a free, sovereign, and independent...by the name of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts." The temporary existence of a Provincial Congress sprang from an emergency occasioned by the conflict...
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