 | Joel Parker - 1856 - 554 pages
...body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such...laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony,... | |
 | Pishey Thompson - 1856 - 865 pages
...better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof, and to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal...laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1857 - 574 pages
...themselves by deed into a civil body politic, for their better ordering and preservation ; and agreed " to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal...laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most convenient for the general good of the colony." On the... | |
 | Pishey Thompson - 1856 - 886 pages
...better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof, and to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal...laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony,... | |
 | A. James Reichley - 2002 - 312 pages
...the Puritans to Massachusetts, agreed before landing to a democratic system of government that would "frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts,...most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony."47 As we saw in chapter six, Anabaptists on the left wing of the Reformation went far beyond... | |
 | John Phillips - 2002 - 600 pages
...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...laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony;... | |
 | Rebecca Stefoff - 2003 - 148 pages
...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...Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony,... | |
 | E. Michael Rusten, Sharon O. Rusten - 2003 - 840 pages
...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...laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony.... | |
 | Forrest Church - 2003 - 196 pages
...politic, for our better ordering and preservation." In short, they created their own government, pledging to "enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal...laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony:... | |
 | Lon Cantor - 2003 - 244 pages
...means, they combined themselves together "into a civil body politic" and gave themselves the right to "enact, constitute and frame such just and equal...laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices from time to time, as shall be thought most convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which... | |
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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,... 
