 | 1869 - 448 páginas
...matter of suffrage in the Colony — "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 1869.] [Mayr "same " — and if William Frederic Poole was in the audience, as we have excellent reasons... | |
 | 1873 - 548 páginas
...rules of Christ." t Let the laws, too, be borne in mind, whereby it was " ordered and agreed that for time 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 same,":f which ensured... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1876 - 584 páginas
...elective franchise : " To the end this body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed that, for the time to come, no...some of the churches within the limits of the same." Thus the polity became a theocracy ; God himself was to govern his people ; and the " saints by calling,"... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1876 - 528 páginas
...a state for themselves struggled against drowning in a flood. In 1631 a law had been passed that,1 "No man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body...some of the churches within the limits of the same." Nevertheless in one year, when only one hundred and fortyfive were admitted as freemen,2 nearly three... | |
 | 1876 - 864 páginas
...quite unique. As early as 1631 it was 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. In thus carrying out what they... | |
 | 1876 - 624 páginas
...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. 'I The charter of the Massachusetts Company had laid down no condition as to citizenship,... | |
 | Edward Howland - 1877 - 848 páginas
...meeting it was ordered that the people should resume the power of electing their officers. It was also " ordered and agreed, that for the time to come, no...politic but such as are members of some of the churches witliin the limits of the same." This disfranchised about threequarters of the population. 1631, JULY... | |
 | National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States - 1877 - 480 páginas
...of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was likewise ordered and agreed that for time to come no man shall be admitted to the freedom...members of some of the churches within the limits of the same."4 The reason assigned, it will be observed, was not of a religious, but of a civil, nature. It... | |
 | 1891 - 184 páginas
...Plymouth in 1620: but eleven years afterward it was decreed "that no man should be admitted to the body politic but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same." In Massachusetts in 1634 it was ordered bv the court "that none but freemen should have any vote in... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1877 - 920 páginas
...theocracy. " To the end that 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 the body politic but such as are members of some of the churches within the bounds of the same." As... | |
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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... 
