...Celebration of the Settlement of the City. By Charles Sprague. Boston, US 1830." 8vo. pp. 22. time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient...submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our Names at Cape Cod, the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign...

...ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof do enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws and ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from...good of the colony, unto which we promise all due subjection and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names, at Cape Cod, the...

...frame such just and equul laws and ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, os shall be thought most meet and convenient, for the general good of the colony, unto which we promini all due subjection and obedience. In wit tics* whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names...

...presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politick, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof do enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and officers,...

...presence of God, and of one another, covenant anct combine ourselves together, into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof, do enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices,...

...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 of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof do enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws and ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices,...

...jti4l und equul laws and ordinance*, acts, constitution» and office«, from time to time, na símil be thought most meet and convenient, for the general good of the colony, uuiu which we pruminn all due subjection end obedience. In witneu whereof, we have hereunto subscribed...

...our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid : and by virtue hereof do enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and officers, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the...

...our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof do enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws,...colony ; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience." This was the earliest American constitution, and was signed by 41 persons. It was in...

...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 of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof do enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices,...