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| Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitution - 1920 - 568 pages
...commonwealth. [5 17] ART. 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 an exact subordination to... | |
| Massachusetts - Massachusetts - 1919 - 422 pages
...XXI.) [XVII.] The people have a right to keep /ยง 34) 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... | |
| Massachusetts - Constitutional law - 1920 - 196 pages
...initiative* II, sect. 2. 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 ^ m ilit arv p Ower sna ll always be held in an exact subordination... | |
| Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitution - 1920 - 586 pages
...sect. 2.] XVII. The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence. And as, m 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... | |
| Massachusetts - Constitutional law - 1921 - 192 pages
...initiative,'II, sect. 2. 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... | |
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