 AS the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community, but by the institution of the public worship of...  Documents Printed by Order of the Senate - Էջ 8Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1833Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Thomas J. Curry - 1987 - 289 էջ
...preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion, and morality; and . . . these cannot be generally diffused through a community...public instructions in piety, religion, and morality. Supporters of this system would elongate their arguments in sermons and newspapers, but essentially... | |
 | Merrill D. Peterson, Robert C. Vaughan - 1988 - 392 էջ
...enforcing it. Article III stated: "As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion...institution of the public worship of GOD, and of public instruction in piety, religion, and morality; Therefore . . ,"48 The didactic exposition of the connection... | |
 | Stephen L. Schechter - 1990 - 478 էջ
...(Cambridge, Mass., 1975). HI. As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion...preservation of their government, the people of this Commonwealth have a right to invest their legislature with power to authorize and require, and the... | |
 | Arlin M. Adams, Charles J. Emmerich - 1990 - 200 էջ
...their religious worship. III. As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion,...morality: Therefore, to promote their happiness, and secure the good order and preservation of their government, the people of this commonwealth have a... | |
 | Robert A. Licht - 1991 - 220 էջ
...Oscar and Mary Handlin (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1966), pp. 442-47. 11. "To promote their happiness and to secure the good...preservation of their government, the people of this Commonwealth have a right to invest their legislature with power to authorize and require, and the... | |
 | Michael Carlton Tolley - 1992 - 200 էջ
...Rights is an attempt to maintain civic and religious virtue by explicit public provision for religion: [T]o promote their happiness and to secure the good...preservation of their government, the people of this Commonwealth have a right to invest their legislature with power to authorize and require, and the... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - 1993 - 470 էջ
...order and preservation of civil government, essentially Depends upon Piety, Religion and morality; and these cannot be generally diffused through a Community...the Institution of the Public Worship of God, and by publick Instruction in piety, Religion, &c.'— When both antient History and modern athentic Information... | |
 | Robert A. Gross - 1993 - 444 էջ
...religious taxation and responsibilities for church management permitted under the state constitution. "To promote their happiness and to secure the good order and preservation of their government," Article 3 of that document's Declaration of Rights declared that the legislature shall "authorize and... | |
 | Charles S. Hyneman - 1994 - 332 էջ
...in the constitution until 1833: As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion,...morality; and as these cannot be generally diffused throughout a community, but by the institutions of the public worship of GOD, and of public instructions... | |
 | William Edward Nelson - 1994 - 301 էջ
...preservation of civil government, essentially depend[ed] upon piety, religion and morality," which could "not be generally diffused through a community, but by the institution of the public worship of GOD. . . ."[193] No one, in short, thought that God needed the aid of the communities of Massachusetts,... | |
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