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 | Presidents - 1841 - 460 pages
...this commonwealth. 17. The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence. And as, in time of peace, armies are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be maintained, without the consent of the legislature : and the military power shall always be held in exact subordination to... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. House - 1845 - 1194 pages
...Commonwealth. XVII. — The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence. And as in time of peace armies are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be maintained without the consent of the legislature; and the military power shall always be held in an exact subordination to... | |
 | Jonathan French - United States - 1847 - 506 pages
...this commonwealth. 17. The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence. And as, in time of peace, armies are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be maintained, without the consent of the legislature : and the military power shall always be held in exact subordination to... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...this commonwealth. " The people have a right to keep and % to bear arms for the common defence. And as, in time of peace, armies are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be maintained, without the consent of the legislature : and the military power shall always be held in exact subordination to... | |
 | John Bigelow - Constitutions - 1848 - 538 pages
...this Commonwealth. 17. The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defense. And as, in time of peace, armies are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be maintained, without the consent of the Legislature : and the military power shall always be held in exact subordination to... | |
 | African Americans - 1848 - 404 pages
...of suffrage. Sec. 12. The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence. And as, in time of peace, armies are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be maintained without the consent of the legislature, and the military power shall always be held in exact subordination to the... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1852 - 94 pages
...this Commonwealth. XVII. The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence: and as, in time of peace, armies are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be maintained without the consent of the legislature ; and the military power shall always be held in an exact subordination... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1853 - 108 pages
...Commonwealth. ART. 18. The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence : and, as in time of peace, armies are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be maintained without the consent of the Legislature ; and the military power shall always be held in an exact subordination... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Liberia - 1853 - 318 pages
...right of suffrage. Sec. 12. The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defense. As in time of peace armies are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be maintained without the consent of the Legislature, and the military power shall always be held in exact subordination to the... | |
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