...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...the Colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our Names, at Cape Cod, the llth of November,...

...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...the Colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our Names, at Cape Cod, the llth of November,...

...equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most convenient for the general good of the colony. Unto which we promise all due subminaion and obedience." All the men, forty-one in number, signed this first of written constitutions:...

...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...colony : unto which we promise all due submission and obedience," &c.* Cotton Mather's account is in a similar spirit. In describing the motives which...

...mutually in the presence of God and one A MOMENTOUS DOCUMENT another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better...the colony. Unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the 1 1th of...

...politic, for our better ordering and preservation." In short, they created their own government, pledging to "enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal...the Colony: unto which we promise all due submission and obedience." Noting the contrast between this compact and the laws of the old country, Tocqueville...

...for many years. The language in these extracts is almost entirelv that of Bradford. — AM. En. 18 frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts,...the Colony: unto which we promise all due submission and obedience," &c.'" This happened in i()2o, and from that time forwards the emigration went on. The...

...futhérance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue héreof to enact, constitue, and frame such just and aqual laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices,...the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereoff we have héreunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod the 1 1th of...

...they formed a "Civil Body Politic" for "better ordering and preservation." They enacted "such just laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices,...the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience." Of the landing on Cape Cod on Monday, December 11, 1620, Bradford wrote, "Being thus...

...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...the Colony: unto which we promise all due submission and obedience,' &c.9 This happened in 1620, and from that time forwards the emigration went on. The...