| 1804 - 372 sider
...appointed to serve ; and such ought to be fully compensated for their travel, time and attendance. XXII. The LIBERTY OF THE PRESS is essential to the security of freedom in a State : It ought therefore, to be inviolably preserved. XXIII. Retrospective laws are highly injurious, oppressive,... | |
| Massachusetts - 1826 - 126 sider
...such as relate to mariners' wages, the Legislature shall hereafter find it necessary to alter it. XVI. The liberty of the press is essential to the security...of freedom in a State ; it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this Commonwealth. XVII. • The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for... | |
| 1828 - 494 sider
...serve; and sucli ought to he fully compensated for their travel, time, and attendance. 22. The liherty of the press is essential to the security of freedom in a state: it ought, therefore, to he inviolahly preserved. 23. Retrospective laws are highly injurious, oppressive, and... | |
| John Winslow Whitman - 1829 - 314 sider
...the constitution did not think so. By declaring in the sixteenth article of the Bill of Rights that ' the liberty of the press is essential to the security of freedom in a state, and ought not therefore to be restrained in this commonwealth ' — they placed the rights of the press... | |
| Joseph Blunt - 1835 - 624 sider
...intentions. The sixteenth article of the declaration of rights, contained in the former, asserts, that " the liberty of the press is essential to the security...of freedom in a state ; it ought not therefore to be restrained in this commonwealth." The fifteenth article in the constitution of the latter declares... | |
| Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - 1832 - 276 sider
...relate to mariners wages, the legislature shall hereafter find it necessary to alter it. XVI.—THE liberty of the press is essential to the security...of freedom in a state : it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this Commonwealth. XVII.—THE people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the... | |
| Massachusetts. Attorney General's Office - 1915 - 396 sider
...XVI. of the Declaration of Rights, secures the liberty of the press in the following language: — The liberty of the press is essential to the security...of freedom in a state: it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this commonwealth. Notwithstanding the fact that the liberty of the press is thus... | |
| Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 sider
...a state government, whose constitution, like that, for instance, of Massachusetts, declares, that " the liberty of the press is essential to the security...of freedom in a state ; it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this commonwealth." What is the true interpretation of this clause? Does it prohibit... | |
| Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1833 - 806 sider
...as relate to mariners wages, the legislature shall hereafter find it necessary to alter it. XVI. — THE liberty of the press is essential to the security...of freedom in a state : it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this Commonwealth. XVII. — THE people have a right to keep and to bear arms for... | |
| Abner Kneeland - 1834 - 320 sider
...sixteenth article of the same declaration, in which they secure the liberty of the press, as follows: "The liberty of the press is essential to the security...of freedom in a State; it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this State." , These two clauses were designed to cut off, and do cut off, all right... | |
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