 | Constitutions - 1804 - 372 pages
...appointed to serve ; and such ought to be fully compensated for their travel, time and attendance. XXII. The LIBERTY OF THE PRESS is essential to the security of freedom in a State : It ought therefore, to be inviolably preserved. XXIII. Retrospective laws are highly injurious, oppressive,... | |
 | 1805 - 596 pages
...declare, " That the freedom of the press shall not be restrained," and " that the printing presses shall be free to every person who undertakes to examine the proceedings of the legislature, or any part of the government ?" However ingenuity may torture the expressions, there can be little doubt... | |
 | Illinois - Constitutional law - 1818 - 32 pages
...regulated by the general assembly of the state as they may think proper. Sect. 22. The printing presses shall be free to every person who undertakes to examine the proceedings of the general assembly or of any branch of government; and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right... | |
 | Vermont - Land grants - 1823 - 570 pages
...recorded in the town clerk's office, in their respective towns. SECTION XXXII. The printing presses shall be free to every person who undertakes to examine the proceedings of the legislature, or any part of government. SECTION XXXIII. As every freeman, to preserve his independence (if without a sufficient... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1826 - 126 pages
...such as relate to mariners' wages, the Legislature shall hereafter find it necessary to alter it. XVI. The liberty of the press is essential to the security...it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this Commonwealth. XVII. • The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence. And... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1828 - 436 pages
...their pleasure, and to De commissioned by the president in council. Sect. 35th. The printing presses shall be free to every person who undertakes to examine the proceedings of the legislature, or any part of government. Sect. 36th. As every freerran, to preserve his independence, (if without a sufficient... | |
 | Constitutions - 1828 - 494 pages
...serve; and sucli ought to he fully compensated for their travel, time, and attendance. 22. The liherty of the press is essential to the security of freedom in a state: it ought, therefore, to he inviolahly preserved. 23. Retrospective laws are highly injurious, oppressive, and... | |
 | Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1829 - 460 pages
...their pleasure, and to De commissioned by the president in council. Sect. 35th. The printing presses shall be free to every person who undertakes to examine the proceedings of the legislature, or any part of government. Sect. 36th. As every freeman, to preserve his independence, (if without a' sufficient... | |
 | John Winslow Whitman - Freedom of the press - 1829 - 314 pages
...the constitution did not think so. By declaring in the sixteenth article of the Bill of Rights that ' the liberty of the press is essential to the security of freedom in a state, and ought not therefore to be restrained in this commonwealth ' — they placed the rights of the press... | |
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The liberty of the press is essential to the security of freedom in a state': it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this commonwealth. 
