...another, covenant and combine ourselves together, into a civil body politic, for our better o/dering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid...enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws and ordinances, acts, constitutions and officers, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet...

...a civil body politic, for our bett >rdering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesait and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws and ordinances, acts, constitutions and officers, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet...

...presence of God and of one another, covenant and combine ourselves together in a civil body politick, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance...witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names. Cape Cod, eleventh of November in the year of the reign of our sovereign Lord, king James of England,...

...ourselves together, into a civil body politick, for our better ordering and preservation, and fartherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof, to enact,...whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at cape Cad, the llth of November, in the year of the reign of oiir sovereign Lord, King James, of England,...

...ourselves together, into a civil body politick, for our better ordering and preservation, and farthcrance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof, to enact,...constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shaU be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony. Unto which we promise...

...ourselves together, into a civil body politick, for our better ordering ana preservation, and fartherancc of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof, to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinance?, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as sh.all he thought most meet and...

...presence of God and of one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance...enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws and ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and...

...presence of God and of one another, covenant and combine ourselves together, into u civil body politic, for our better ordering-, and preservation, and furtherance...colony ; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience." This is the earliest Arncriruii constitution, and is dated Nov. 11, Ki'JO, and signed...

...presence of God and of one another, covenant and combine ourselves together, into a civil body politic, for our better ordering, and preservation, and furtherance...colony ; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. This is the earliest American constitution, and is dated Nov. 11, 1620, and signed by...

...presence of God and of one another, covenant and combine ourselves together, into a civil body politic, for our better ordering, and preservation, and furtherance...ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to tune, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we...