 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1872 - 118 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." • By thus limiting the right of suffrage to the aristocracy of goodness rather than extending... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - 1872 - 678 pages
...there was a representative body in Massachusetts, " that no man should be admitted to this body politic but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same " This was, not regaled until Aug 3, 1664. — Mass. Records. An act of 1656 (Hening, i 403)... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1872 - 194 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." other that all laws would be better than the laws of a centralized government like England.... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1872 - 108 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." other that all laws would be better than the laws of a centralized government like England.... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1873 - 180 pages
...decreed, " 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 " (1631, Mass. Colonial Record, i. 87). In the Colony of New Haven (1639) the rule was likewise... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1874 - 524 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," and it is well known that very soon laws were enacted to expel Baptists, Quakers, and other... | |
 | James D. McCabe - 1874 - 974 pages
...still more decided stand by the adoption of a law, which limited the citizenship of the colony to " such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same." This was practically making the state a theocracy. Yet the people were not prepared to surrender... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1874 - 1076 pages
...ordered and agreed that for the tune to come no man shall be admitted to the freedom of the body politic but such as are members of some of the churches within the bounds of the sames." As Laud's hands grew heavier the number of Puritan emigrants rose fast Three... | |
 | Henry Martyn Dexter - 1874 - 446 pages
...ordered and agreed that for time to come noe man Bhalbc admitted to the freedome of this body polliticke, but such as are members of some of the churches within the lymitta of the eame." —(May 18, 1631,) Records of the Colony of Mass. JSay, vol. 1. p. 87. The Connecticut... | |
 | 1869 - 448 pages
...matter of suffrage in the Colony — "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 1869.] [Mayr "same " — and if William Frederic Poole was in the audience, as we have excellent... | |
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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... 
