 | Charles H. Sheldon - 420 страница
...principle not upon what the legislature thought best. A body politic is a social compact by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen...shall be governed by certain laws for the common good. This does not confer power upon the whole people to control rights which are purely an exclusive private.... | |
 | Peter S. Onuf, Nicholas Greenwood Onuf - 1993 - 244 страница
...body-politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals: It is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen...be governed by certain laws for the common good." "A CONSTITUTION OR FRAME OF GOVERNMENT, Agreed upon by the Delegates of the People of the STATE OF... | |
 | Robert J. Cottrol - 1994 - 484 страница
...example, the Massachusetts Constitution of l780 described itself as "a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each Citizen, and each Citizen...be governed by certain Laws for the common good." MASS. CONST, of l780. pmbl., repnnted in I AMEfOCAN CONSTITUTIONS 62l lFranklin B. Hough ed., Albany.... | |
 | Charles S. Hyneman - 1994 - 332 страница
...Constitution of 1780. The body politic, he wrote, is formed by a social compact "in which the whole people covenants with each citizen and each citizen with the whole people" (Preamble). "It is the right of every citizen" to be tried by free, impartial, and independent judges;... | |
 | William Quirk, R. Randall Bridwell - 1995 - 162 страница
...politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals: It is a social compact by which the whole people covenants with each citizen and each citizen...be governed by certain laws for the common good." The necessary change will come one way or another. It may come, as Jefferson and Madison envisioned,... | |
 | Dennis C. Mueller - 1996 - 395 страница
...politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals. It is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen...shall be governed by certain laws for the common good. JOHN ADAMS (as drafted for the preamble of the Massachusetts Constitution) The historical, evolutionary... | |
 | Leonard W. Levy - 462 страница
...politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals; it is a social compact by which the whole people covenants with each citizen and each citizen with the whole people. ..." A minister, Jonas Clark, said in a sermon that just government is founded in compact "and in compact... | |
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The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals; it 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 the common good. 
