| 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... | |
| Edward Howland - 1877 - 858 páginas
...their officers. It was also " ordered and agreed, that for the time to come, no man shall be ' *dmitted to the freedom of this body politic but such as are...some of the churches within the limits of the same." This disfranchised about threequarters of the population. 1631, JULY 4. — A bark was launched at... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1943 - 120 páginas
...declaring that "for time to come noe man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body polliticke, but such as are members of some of the churches within the lymitts of the same." and that in the colonial period from which the country was then but just emerging... | |
| 1856 - 938 páginas
...good men, it was ordered and agreed that, for thé time to corne, no man shall be admitted to thé freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of thé churches within thé limils of thé same. » (î) Hildieth, liv. 11, chap. 7. 598 REVUE DES DEUX... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration - 1948 - 350 páginas
...declaring that "* * * for time to come uoe man shall he admitted to the freedom of this body pollitlcke, but such as are members of some of the churches within the lymitts of the sapie." and that in the colonial period from which the country was then but just 'emerging,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 1 - 1965 - 506 páginas
...law in 1G31 providing : "To the end the body of commons may be preserved of honest and good men * * * no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body...but such as are members of some of the churches." However, the governing authorities did not always stick to the regulations. When a town needed a physician... | |
| Avihu Zakai - 2002 - 280 páginas
...the body of commons may be preserved of honest and god men," the Massachusetts General Court ordered "that for the time to come no man shall be admitted...but such as are members of some of the churches." 17 A similar belief was implicit in the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut that were drawn up in 1638/39.... | |
| J. F. Maclear - 1995 - 534 páginas
...ordered 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. C. An Act of March 4, 1635:1 Whereas complainte hath bene made to this Court that... | |
| Stephen Innes - 1995 - 432 páginas
...men," the General Court ordered that "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."62 Church members were admitted into the ranks of freemen, thereby giving them... | |
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