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Show ( 39 ‘) (-38) People of tbls Connnonwealtb at large, or tb‘elr - claring and enafiing Independency, and ef'tam blifhing a new Confiitntion and Form of deputies, ebofinjor [bat fieez‘alpn/pry'e." civil Government, and by the authority of . the fame, it is hereby declared and enaéted, as in the following general articles, viz. I. " That this Colony is, and of right ought 6. " That all men are born equally free " and independent, and tbez'r Illa/cor bar left " tbenz free liberty tojet aft/nob Governments as " bc/l pleafl) [bent/elves." " That Magiltrates ' to he, and for ever hereafter ihall, by the favour of all-gracious Heaven, be a free " were fet up for the good of Nations, not. 'State, and ahfolutely independent of the Crown and Government of Great-Britain, " ftrates." and (hail be ftyled, THE COMMONWEALTH, " Nations for the honour and glory of Magix " That the Right and Power of " Magiftrates in every country, was that which] the Laws of that country made it to be." (C - OR STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS." And, ‘~‘ That ufurpation gives no right to ' 5. " That this declaration of the general, " govern." thndanental, and effential Rights of the People of this Commonwealth, fhall, for ever bereafi‘er, be confidered as the general fundamental of the faid new Contiitution and Form of Government; and every ore/er, law, and flatnte, float [ball bereafter be made 7. " That all men have a natural and un- alienable right to worlhip God according to the dietates of their own confcienees, and to enjoy a full and free liberty therein; provided that they, under pretence of Religion, do not attempt to fubvert the Confiitution by tbe general Court of flats Coznmonwealtlv, flaoll eorg'orin to tbe jpz'rz't, and plain finple and Form of GQVernment of this State, 85c." _ meaning and intention of tlJe/e general jandamentals; and all and every order, law, and Here then is that in eflé, What Dr. Cooper tells us "never exif'ted," an original Compete-f. A Compaét too, with Powers (which, accord-4' flatnte, tlJat may bereafter bappen to be made, ‘ and fltall be fonnzl contrary tbereto, fball be general fundamentals flan/l bereeyfter be made, ing to him, " are ordained of God") folely derived from the People ; and, the governed being fuperior to the governors, with natural Rights, " pretended," as he fays they are, " fet ~ but only by the imnzea'late cmfint of tbe good it up in oppofition to the pofitive Law of the. null one,l "cold, and laave no (first, and be immediately repealed: and no alteration in tbefe ' " People C 4 ‘~‘ State." |
