The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals: it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good. United States Supreme Court Reports - Side 84av United States. Supreme Court - 1901Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| James Jeffrey Roche - 1891 - 840 sider
...first Constitution of Massachusetts : "A social compact by which the whole people covenants with each citizen and each citizen with the whole people that...be governed by certain laws for the common good." Take Maryland and Massachusetts as examples of Southern and Northern democracy. They started about... | |
| Joseph Story - 1891 - 858 sider
...of individuals; that it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citi/cn, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall...be governed by certain laws for the common good;" and that in the same preamble the people acknowledge with grateful hearts, that Providence had afforded... | |
| Alpheus Beede Stickney - 1891 - 316 sider
...a " social compact by which the whole people covenant with each citizen, and each citizen covenants with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good." In such a compact, necessarily each member parts with some rights or privileges which as an individual,... | |
| 1892 - 936 sider
...statute, so applying to a class of workmen, violates the fundamental principle of the Constitution that all shall "be governed by certain laws for the common good" to the end "that every man may at all limes flnd his security in them." Preamble to Constitution. It... | |
| New York (State). Constitutional Convention - 1894 - 1436 sider
...voluntary association of individuals; it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each L M N O P Q It is the duty of the people, therefore, in framing a Constitution of government, to provide for an... | |
| New Hampshire. Forestry Commission - 1901 - 32 sider
...rights or privileges which, as an individual not affected by his relations to others, he might retain. This does not confer power upon the whole people to...control rights which are purely and exclusively private (Tlim-pe v. RR Co., 2"t Vt. 143), but it does authorize the establishment of laws requiring each citizen... | |
| New York (State). Constitutional Convention - 1894 - 1326 sider
...Fool.al compact, by which the whote pn.,r'le covenants with each citizen, and eaph citizen with fie lynn it is the Preamble. duty of the people, therefore, in framing a constitution of government, to provide... | |
| John Bascom - 1895 - 580 sider
...voluntary association of individuals. It is a social compact by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that...governed by certain laws for the common good." This declaration has been as true in Massachusetts as it has ever been anywhere ; but if any portion of... | |
| James Bradley Thayer - 1895 - 1214 sider
...association of individuals • it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that...shall be governed by certain laws for the common good. It is the duty of the people, therefore, in framing a constitution of government, to provide for an... | |
| Charles Borgeaud - 1895 - 392 sider
...voluntary association of individuals : it is a social compact by which the whole people covenants with each citizen and each citizen with the whole people that...shall be governed by certain laws for the common good. It is the duty of the people, therefore, in framing a constitution of government, to provide for an... | |
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