 | 1866 - 924 pages
...principle which they had laid down, as early as 1C31, as one of their fundamental laws, • • that no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body...members of some of the churches within the limits of the same."t As the churches were all of one kind, — the Independent or Congregational, — and as the... | |
 | Robert Baird - 1844 - 372 pages
...may be preserved of honest and good men, it is ordered and agreed, that for the time to come, no uian shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic...some of the churches within the limits of the same."* In other words, no one was to vote at elections, or could be chosen to any office in the commonwealth,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 560 pages
...it was " ordered and agreed, that, for time to come, no man should be admitted to the freedom of the body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same." Thus church and state were closely united. Such were the fundamental principles of the community of... | |
 | William Hubbard - 1848 - 852 pages
...honest men, it was ordered and agreed, that for time to come, no man be admitted to the freedom of the body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same. Within the compass of the year 1631 arrived not so many ships as did the year before, fraught with... | |
 | 1848 - 804 pages
...honest men, it was ordered and agreed, that for time to come, no man be admitted to the freedom of the body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same. Within the compass of the year 1631 arrived not so many ships as did the year before, fraught with... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - 1851 - 136 pages
...it is ordered and agreed, that, for the time to come, no one shall be admitted to the freedom of the body politic but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same." A similar law existed from the first in Newhaven, during the period of its separate existence, and... | |
 | M. Murray - 1852 - 454 pages
...agreed, in order that " the body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men," " that for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom...some of the churches within the limits of the same." This law has been severely censured, and it produced much dissension in the colony. It was not, however,... | |
 | 1852 - 372 pages
...the general court ordered, " That no man for the time to come shall be admitted to the freedom of the body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same." This suicidal policy could not fail to arouse the spirit of Williams, and make him warn the government... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1854 - 550 pages
...body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom...some of the churches within the limits of the same." Thus was the elective franchise narrowed. The polity was a sort of theocracy; God himself was to govern... | |
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To the end the body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the... 
