 | George Bancroft - 1841 - 368 páginas
...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 limits of the same." Thus was the elective franchise narrowed. The polity was a sort of theocracy ; God himself was to govern... | |
 | Samuel William Southmayd Dutton - 1842 - 140 páginas
...commencement of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, an order was made, " that for the time to come, none should be admitted to the freedom of the body politic, but such as were church members." " This most extraordinary law," says Hutchinson in his History, " was in fact... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1844 - 514 páginas
...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 limits of the same." Thus was the elective franchise narrowed. The polity was a sort of theocracy ; God himself was to govern... | |
 | Robert Baird - 1844 - 372 páginas
...is ordered and agreed, that for the time to come, no uian 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."* In other words, no one was to vote at elections, or could be chosen to any office in the commonwealth,... | |
 | Robert Baird - 1844 - 390 páginas
...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."* In other words, no one was to vote at elections, or could be chosen to any office in the commonwealth,... | |
 | 1866 - 924 páginas
...1C31, as one of their fundamental laws, • • that 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."t As the churches were all of one kind, — the Independent or Congregational, — and as the... | |
 | Robert Baird - 1844 - 552 páginas
...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.i'* In other words, no one was to vote at elections, or could be chosen to any office in the commonwealth,... | |
 | John Frost - 1844 - 438 páginas
...commons might be preserved of good and honest men,' it was ordered that, from that time, no persons be admitted to the freedom of the body politic, but such as were members of some of the churches within its limits. This provision has been much censured by historians... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1845 - 482 páginas
...more than a year after their arrival, they " ordered and agreed that, for time to come, no man should be admitted to the freedom of the body politic, but...some of the churches within the limits of the same." It was the aspiration of the Puritans to form a Christian republic, after the model of the Jewish theocracy,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 560 páginas
...after the founding of the colony, it was " ordered and agreed, that, for time to come, no man should be admitted to the freedom of the body politic, but...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... | |
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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... 
