The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science

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Johns Hopkins University Press, 1896
 

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Stran 288 - That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from the people; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.
Stran 437 - All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; and pursuing and obtaining safety- and happiness.
Stran 403 - Forasmuch as the good education of children, is of singular behoofe and benefit to any Commonwealth ; and whereas many parents and masters are too indulgent and negligent of their duty in that kind...
Stran 512 - Be it enacted by the authority of this present parliament, that from the last day of July, which shall be in the year of our Lord God 1536, no manors, lands, tenements, or other hereditaments, shall pass, alter, or change from one to another, whereby any estate of inheritance or freehold shall be made or take effect in any person or persons, or any use thereof to be made, by reason only of any bargain and sale thereof, except the same bargain and sale be made by writing, indented, sealed, and enrolled...
Stran 403 - It being one chiefe project of that old deluder Sathan, to keepe men from the knowledge of the Scriptures...
Stran 118 - Councillors, or five of them at least, shall and may, from time to time, hold and keep a Council, for the ordering and directing the affairs of the Commonwealth, according to the laws of the land.
Stran 74 - ... for the town at large: Provided, That each trustee shall be voted for by all the electors of the town, but shall be a resident of the ward for which he is elected : And provided further, That nothing herein contained shall prevent the respective offices of clerk and treasurer from being held by the same person. The term of trustees shall be four years and the term of the clerk, treasurer and marshal shall be two years.
Stran 213 - Since charity obliges us to wish well to the souls of all men, and religion ought to alter nothing in any man's civil estate or right, it shall be lawful for slaves, as well as others, to enter themselves, and be of what Church or profession any of them shall think best, and thereof be as fully members as any freeman.
Stran 144 - ... that the legislative, executive, and judiciary powers ought to be kept as separate from and independent of each other as the nature of a free government will admit, or as is consistent with that chain of connection that binds the whole fabric of the Constitution in one indissoluble bond of unity and amity.
Stran 51 - so conceited, bustling and debonair, growing up like a saucy chubby boy, with his dumpling cheeks and short grinning face, fat and mischievous, and bursting incontinently out of his clothes in spite of all the allowance of tucks and broad salvages.

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