 | James Clement Moffat - 1886 - 504 pages
...Connecticut, Maine and New Hampshire, that " no man shall 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 early was Congregationalism established in connection with the state, and before the... | |
 | Charles Brooks - 1886 - 738 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." In another record of the court we find this dictum, still more puritanical : " A freeman... | |
 | 1859 - 864 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 commonwealth was thus constituted on a strictly religious basis ; and in the days when... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1942 - 496 pages
...law 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1942 - 494 pages
...1631, that — for time to come noe person 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. There is no prohibition against the States establishing religious qualifications... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1943 - 120 pages
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration - 1948 - 350 pages
...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,... | |
 | J. F. Maclear - 1995 - 534 pages
...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 pages
...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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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... 
