 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
 | J. F. Maclear - 1995 - 534 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,...preservation of their government, the people of this commonwealth have a right to invest their legislature with power to authorize and require, and the... | |
 | Maris Vinovskis - 1995 - 268 էջ
...Constitution of 1780 stated that: 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, . . . the... | |
 | Steven Douglas Smith - 1999 - 190 էջ
...support in this country. 8 It was embodied in article 3 of the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780: and of public instructions in piety, religion, and...preservation of their government, the people of this Commonwealth have a right to invest the Legislature [with authority to provide for mandatory church... | |
 | Robert A. Goldwin - 1997 - 236 էջ
...Oscar and Mary Handlin (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University, 1966), pp. 442-47. 24. "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... | |
 | Daniel C. Palm - 1997 - 230 էջ
...the happiness of mankind" (just as Massachusetts said that towns were required to support religion to "promote their happiness and to secure the good order and preservation of civil government"). Government support of religious content in public education is not molestation.... | |
 | Alonzo Trévier Jones - 1998 - 384 էջ
...Preserver of the universe. . . . As the happiness of a people and the good order and. preservation of civil government essentially depend upon piety, religion,...the public worship of God and of public instructions inpiety, religion, and morality; Therefore, to promote their happiness and to secure the good order... | |
 | jeffrey s gurock - 1998 - 516 էջ
...obstruct others in their religious worship.107 The declaration immediately went on, however, to endorse "the institution of the public worship of God, and of public instructions in piety, religion, and morality"101 and invested the legislature with power to authorize and require, and the legislature... | |
 | Carl Watner - 1999 - 504 էջ
...non-protestant faiths in the state: 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, to promote their happiness, and to secure... | |
 | James A. Gardner - 1999 - 448 էջ
...YI and XL YIIl.] Article in. [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 he generally diffused through a community, hut hy the institution of the puhlic worship of God, and... | |
 | James H. Hutson - 2000 - 228 էջ
...final text of Article III reads thus: As the happiness of a people, and good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion,...diffused through a Community, but by the institution of publick Worship of God, and of public instructions in piety, religion, and morality: Therefore, to... | |
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