 | 1782 - 188 ページ
...and happinefs. The body-politic is formed, by a voluntary aflbciation of individuals ; it is a focial compact, by which the whole people covenants with...citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all fhall be governed by certain laws for the common good. Jt is the duty' of the people, therefore, in... | |
 | 1783 - 492 ページ
...The body-politic is formed by a voluntary afTociation of individuals ; it is a focial compadt, pact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all fhall be governed by certain laws for the common good. It is the duty of the people, therefore, in... | |
 | William Winterbotham - 1795 - 514 ページ
...happinefs. The body politic is formed by a voluntary aflbciation of indiri«Juals ; it is a focial compaft, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen,...and each- citizen with the whole people, that all jhalJ be governed by certain laws for the common good. It is the <5nty of the people, therefore, in... | |
 | William Winterbotham - 1796 - 580 ページ
...The body politic is formed by a voluntary affociation of individuals; it is a focial сотрай, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen,...and each citizen, with the whole people, that all (ball be governed by certain law» for the common good. It is the duty of the people, therefore in... | |
 | François-Alexandre-Frédéric duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt - 1799 - 306 ページ
...happinefs. The body-politic is formed by a voluntary afîbciation of individuals ; it is a focial compaft, by which t'he whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with thé whole people, that ail (hall be governed by certain laws for thé common good. Jtis thé duty... | |
 | 1804 - 372 ページ
...happinefs. The be;;!1/ politic is formed 'by a voluntary affociation of individuals. It is a focial compa6>, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all fhall be governtd by certain iaws for the common good. It is the duty cf the people, therefore, in... | |
 | 1827 - 634 ページ
...religious right, the people, of these United States not only cast off the yoke of foreign domination, but " the whole people covenants with each citizen, and...be governed by certain laws for the common good." We consider it therefore, the duty of every citizen to watch for the public welfare ; to sound the... | |
 | 1828 - 494 ページ
...happiness. The hody politic is formed hy a voluntary association of individuals. It is a social compact, hy which the whole people covenants with each citizen,...each citizen with the whole people, that all shall he governed hy certain laws for the common good. It is the duty of the people therefore in framing... | |
 | 1836 - 522 ページ
...covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole peo88 Power to Suspend the Laws. pie that ail shall be governed by certain laws for the common good. It is the duty of ihe people, therefore, in framing a constitution of government, to provide for an equitable mode of... | |
 | James Creighton Odiorne - 1830 - 314 ページ
...religious right, the people of these United States not only cast off the yoke of foreign domination, but " the whole people covenants with each citizen, and...be governed by certain laws for the common good." We consider it therefore, the duty of every citizen to watch for the public welfare; to sound the alarm... | |
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A body politic," as aptly defined in the preamble of the Constitution of Massachusetts, "is a social compact by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for... 
