Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid... The Gateway to Citizenship - Page 78by Carl Britt Hyatt - 1956Full view - About this book
| William Henry Bartlett - Massachusetts - 1853 - 312 pages
...presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politie, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions,... | |
| DANIEL WEBSTER - 1853 - 778 pages
...presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid, and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws and ordinances, acts, constitutions,... | |
| Fredrika Bremer - Cuba - 1853 - 664 pages
...presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof, to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions,... | |
| John Frost - United States - 1854 - 775 pages
...sence of GOD, and of one .another, covenant and comhine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and, by virtue hereof, to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws and ordinances, acts, constitutions... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1854 - 648 pages
...presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid, and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws and ordinances, acts, constitutions,... | |
| Fredrika Bremer - Cuba - 1854 - 676 pages
...presence of God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof, to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions,... | |
| Curtis Hutson - Political Science - 2000 - 264 pages
...presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions... | |
| Peter M. Tiersma - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 340 pages
...presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the ends aforesaid: And by Virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions... | |
| Daniel Judah Elazar, John Kincaid - Political Science - 2000 - 360 pages
...Presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid. By the revolutionary era, covenant (or federal) theory was widely appreciated and deeply rooted in... | |
| R. Bruce Douglass, Joshua Mitchell - Reference - 2000 - 274 pages
...Presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid. The Virginia Bill of Rights (written by George Mason in 1776): [A]ll men are by nature equally free... | |
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