 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1869 - 510 páginas
...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 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.' u It was the aspiration of the Puritans to form a Christian republic after the model of the Jewish... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1943 - 120 páginas
...declaring that "for time to come noe man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body polliticke, but such as are members of some of the churches within the lymitts of the same." and that in the colonial period from which the country was then but just emerging... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration - 1948 - 350 páginas
...declaring that "* * * for time to come uoe man shall he admitted to the freedom of this body pollitlcke, but such as are members of some of the churches within the lymitts of the sapie." and that in the colonial period from which the country was then but just 'emerging,... | |
 | Avihu Zakai - 2002 - 280 páginas
...Massachusetts General Court ordered "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." 17 A similar belief was implicit in the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut that were drawn up in 1638/39.... | |
 | Stephen Innes - 1995 - 432 páginas
...men," the General Court ordered that "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."62 Church members were admitted into the ranks of freemen, thereby giving them... | |
 | J. F. Maclear - 1995 - 534 páginas
...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. C. An Act of March 4, 1635:1 Whereas complainte hath bene made to this Court that... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1867 - 558 páginas
...likewise ordered and agreed, that for 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.77 f In September, 1635, it was " ordered that none but freemen shall have any vote in any town,... | |
 | Isaac Backus, David Weston - 2001 - 564 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 same1." This test in after times had such influence, that he who " did not conform, was deprived 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... 
