 | George Bancroft - 1834 - 532 pages
...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 limits of the same." The principle of universal suffrage was the usage of Virginia ; Massachusetts, resting for... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1839 - 506 pages
...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 limits of the same." Thus was the elective franchise narrowed. The polity was a sort of theocracy; God himself... | |
 | 1840 - 494 pages
...freemen here, may be preserved of honest and good men ; — It is ordained, that henceforth, no men shall be admitted to the freedom of this commonwealth, but...churches within the limits of this jurisdiction." Two years after this, the Rev. John Cotton came over — being expelled from his charge in England,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1841 - 368 pages
...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 limits of the same." Thus was the elective franchise narrowed. The polity was a sort of theocracy ; God himself... | |
 | 1866 - 924 pages
...their fundamental laws, • • that 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 same."t As the churches were all of one kind, — the Independent or Congregational, — and as... | |
 | Robert Baird - 1844 - 372 pages
...and agreed, that for the time to come, no uian 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 same."* In other words, no one was to vote at elections, or could be chosen to any office in the... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1844 - 514 pages
...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 limits of the same." Thus was the elective franchise narrowed. The polity was a sort of theocracy ; God himself... | |
 | Robert Baird - 1844 - 552 pages
...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 limits of the same.i'* In other words, no one was to vote at elections, or could be chosen to any office in the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 560 pages
...ordered and agreed, that, for time to come, no man should be admitted to the freedom of the body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same." Thus church and state were closely united. Such were the fundamental principles of the community... | |
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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... 
