 | 1869 - 468 pages
...matter of suffrage in the Colony — " no man shall be admitted to the freedom " of this body-politic, but such as are members of " some of the Churches within the limits of the "same " — and if William Frederic Poole was in the audience, as we have excellent reasons for believing... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1869 - 510 pages
...good men : It is ordered, That henceforth no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this Commonwealth but such as are members of some of the Churches within the limits of this jurisdiction." Can we lay our hands upon our hearts, and say, that all our laws regulating suffrage... | |
 | Joel Parker - 1869 - 102 pages
...good men : It is ordered, That henceforth no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this Commonwealth but such as are members of some of the Churches within the limits of this jurisdiction." Can we lay our hands upon our hearts, and say, that all our laws regulating suffrage... | |
 | John D. Minor - 1870 - 434 pages
...arrival, they '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.' u It was the aspiration of the Puritans to form a Christian republic after the model of the Jewish... | |
 | 1866 - 694 pages
...conscience." " It is ordered that henceforth no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this Commonwealth, but such as are members of some of the Churches within the limits of this Commonwealth." fl " It is therefore ordered by this Court, and the authority thereof, that whosoever... | |
 | David Masson - 1871 - 636 pages
...Haven church-membership was a condition of the franchise. " It is 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 limits of the same : "... | |
 | David Masson - 1871 - 630 pages
...Haven church-membership was a condition of the franchise. " It is 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 limits of the same : "... | |
 | Henry Martyn Dexter - 1871 - 426 pages
...ordered and agreed that for time to come noe man shalbe admitted to the freedome of this body polliticke, but such as are members of some of the churches within the lymitts of the same." —(May 18, 1631,) Records of the Colony of Mass. Bay, vol. i. p, 87. The Connecticut... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1872 - 118 pages
...end that the body of the commons may be 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." • By thus limiting the right of suffrage to the aristocracy of goodness rather than extending it... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1872 - 108 pages
...end that the body of the commons may be 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." other that all laws would be better than the laws of a centralized government like England. In May,... | |
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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... 
