 We, therefore, the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the goodness of the great Legislator of the universe, in affording us, in the course of His providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud, violence,...  Documents Printed by Order of the Senate - Page 40by Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1841Full view - About this book
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1900 - 884 pages
...hearts, the goodness of the Supreme Ruler of the universe in affording the people of the United States in the course of His. providence an opportunity, deliberately -and peaceably, without fraud or surprise, of entering into an explicit and solemn compact with~each~dther, by assenting to and ratifying... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1901 - 440 pages
...hearts, the goodness of the Supreme Ruler of the universe in affording the people of the United States, in the course of his providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud or surprise, of entering into an explicit and solemn compact with each other, by assenting to and ratifying... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - History - 1905 - 396 pages
...hearts, the goodness of the Supreme Ruler of the universe in affording the people of the United States, in the course of his providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud or surprise, of entering into an explicit and solemn compact with each other, by assenting to and ratifying... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - Constitutional history - 1905 - 390 pages
...hearts, the goodness of the Supreme Ruler of the universe in affording the people of the United States, in the course of his providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud or surprise, of entering into an explicit and solemn compact with each other, by assenting to and ratifying... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Constitutional history - 1905 - 318 pages
...hearts the goodness of the Supreme Ruler of the Universe in affording the people of the United States, in the course of His providence, an opportunity deliberately and peaceably, without fraud or surprise, of entering into an explicit and solemn compact with each other by assenting to and ratifying... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1014 pages
...opportunity, deliberaH-ly and pcticenhly of entering into an explicit and solemn compact with euch other, aud forming a new constitution of civil government for ourselves and posterity, and recognizing the necessity of the protection of the people in all that pertains to their free dorn,... | |
 | State Historical Society of Iowa - Constitutional history - 1907 - 502 pages
...on its face to be a social compact. l 1 ' ' We therefore, the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging with grateful hearts, the goodness of the Great Legislator...original, explicit and solemn compact with each other ... do agree, ' ' etc. — Preamble of the Constitution of Massachusetts. The principle that the Constitution... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe - Secession - 1907 - 286 pages
...hearts the goodness of the Supreme Euler of the Universe in affording the people of the United States, in the course of His providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud or surprise, of entering into an explicit and solemn compact with each other, by assenting to and ratifying... | |
 | Church and the world - 1893 - 590 pages
...the Word of God," etc. The Preambles recognizing God are found to fall into groups: "Acknowledging with grateful hearts the goodness of the great Legislator...of the universe, in affording us, in the course of this providence, an opportunity deliberately and peacefully, without fraud, violence, or surprise of... | |
 | James De Witt Andrews - Law - 1910 - 392 pages
...Massachusetts (52), wherein the people of that state acknowledge the goodness of Providence in affording them an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without...forming a new constitution of civil government for themselves and their posterity, in which, after explicitly declaring the rights of the citizens of... | |
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