Legislative Assemblies: Their Framework, Make-up, Character, Characteristics, Habits, and Manners, Volume 2 |
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... brought to Captain Keayne . " It should be understood that Keayne was a leading merchant of the town . He had already figured in the Journal , under date of November 9 , 1639 , as being " notorious above others observed and complained ...
... brought to Captain Keayne . " It should be understood that Keayne was a leading merchant of the town . He had already figured in the Journal , under date of November 9 , 1639 , as being " notorious above others observed and complained ...
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... brought to Keayne : " He had it cried divers times , and divers came to see it , but none made claim to it for near a year . He kept it in his yard with a sow of his own . After- wards one Sherman's wife , having lost such a sow , laid ...
... brought to Keayne : " He had it cried divers times , and divers came to see it , but none made claim to it for near a year . He kept it in his yard with a sow of his own . After- wards one Sherman's wife , having lost such a sow , laid ...
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... brought me to consider of , wherein I acknowledge my failings , and humbly intreat you will pardon and pass them by ; if you please to accept my request , your silence shall be a sufficient testimony thereof unto me , and I hope I shall ...
... brought me to consider of , wherein I acknowledge my failings , and humbly intreat you will pardon and pass them by ; if you please to accept my request , your silence shall be a sufficient testimony thereof unto me , and I hope I shall ...
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... brought before the General Court for review , or by order of the General Court , as in the case of disagreement of judges and juries , should be determined by the major vote of the Court met together ; and all cases brought by way of ...
... brought before the General Court for review , or by order of the General Court , as in the case of disagreement of judges and juries , should be determined by the major vote of the Court met together ; and all cases brought by way of ...
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... brought controversy at once . The next year it was recorded that there had " been a long agetation about the motion whether the magistrates " should " sitt by themselves and the deputyes by themselves . " In 1666 Warwick and Portsmouth ...
... brought controversy at once . The next year it was recorded that there had " been a long agetation about the motion whether the magistrates " should " sitt by themselves and the deputyes by themselves . " In 1666 Warwick and Portsmouth ...
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Page 593 - In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights, to illuminate our understandings...
Page 593 - I have lived, Sir, a long time ; and, the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that GOD governs in the affairs of men.
Page 476 - ... any false scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States...
Page 349 - In order to prevent those who are vested with authority from becoming oppressors, the people have a right, at such periods and in such manner as they shall establish by their frame of government, to cause their public officers to return to private life; and to fill up vacant places by certain and regular elections and appointments.
Page 249 - And whereas the ministers of the Gospel are, by their profession, dedicated to the service of God and the care .of souls, and ought not to be diverted from the great duties of their functions...
Page 109 - That the Legislative and Executive powers of the state should be separate and distinct from the Judiciary; and that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression, by feeling and participating the burthens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station, return into that body from which they were originally taken...
Page 38 - a Second Chamber dissents from the First, it is mischievous; if it agrees, it is superfluous.
Page 82 - The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless.
Page 76 - Society, must be an Effect of the Protection afforded to it by the joint Strength of the Society, in the Execution of its Laws. Private Property therefore is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to its last Farthing...
Page 239 - No person who acknowledges the being of a God, and a future state of rewards and punishments, shall, on account of his religious sentiments, be disqualified to hold any office or place of trust or profit under this Commonwealth.