 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1872 - 118 páginas
...passed : — " To the 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...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 páginas
...passed :— " To the 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...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,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1872 - 194 páginas
...passed :— " To the 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...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,... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - 1872 - 676 páginas
...18, 1631, before there was a representative body in Massachusetts," that no man should be admitted to this body politic but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same " This was not repealed until Aug 3, 1G64. — Mass. Records. An act of 1656 (Hening, i 403) of the... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1873 - 180 páginas
...to insure the preservation of the church order first established by the colonists, it was decreed, " that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted...some of the churches within the limits of the same " (1631, Mass. Colonial Record, i. 87). In the Colony of New Haven (1639) the rule was likewise adopted,... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1873 - 444 páginas
...preserved of honest and good men," they "ordered and agreed, that, for the time to come, no man should be admitted to the freedom of this body politic but such as were members of some of the churches within the limits of the same;' Thus they established an aristocracy... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1874 - 524 páginas
..." 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...some of the churches within the limits of the same," and it is well known that very soon laws were enacted to expel Baptists, Quakers, and other heretics... | |
 | James D. McCabe - 1874 - 974 páginas
...still more decided stand by the adoption of a law, which limited the citizenship of the colony to " such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same." This was practically making the state a theocracy. Yet the people were not prepared to surrender their... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1874 - 1076 páginas
...it was ordered and agreed that for the tune to come no man shall be admitted to the freedom of the body politic but such as are members of some of the churches within the bounds of the sames." As Laud's hands grew heavier the number of Puritan emigrants rose fast Three... | |
 | Henry Martyn Dexter - 1874 - 446 páginas
...ordered and agreed that for time to come noe man Bhalbc admitted to the freedome of this body polliticke, but such as are members of some of the churches within the lymitta of the eame." —(May 18, 1631,) Records of the Colony of Mass. JSay, vol. 1. p. 87. The Connecticut... | |
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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... 
