Argument for the Division of Worcester County Before Legislative Committee1856 - Počet stran: 73 |
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Strana 6
... unreasonable , be- cause it is easy to be redressed , because it can be changed by the stroke of a pen , without injury to a single human being ; and of this therefore we complain ; we are here to say that in exactly the same ...
... unreasonable , be- cause it is easy to be redressed , because it can be changed by the stroke of a pen , without injury to a single human being ; and of this therefore we complain ; we are here to say that in exactly the same ...
Strana 29
... unreasonable ; there is a case established , or I say all reasoning is at an end . I am perfectly aware that this test may be objected to as a little vague ; as containing too many words ; as being too labored and argumentative ; but I ...
... unreasonable ; there is a case established , or I say all reasoning is at an end . I am perfectly aware that this test may be objected to as a little vague ; as containing too many words ; as being too labored and argumentative ; but I ...
Strana 31
... unreasonable hinderances and delays in the administration of justice ; not that a county is too large for reli ... unreasonable delay ; " but he does not go on and define even that . Therefore my defini- tion seeks to remedy that defect ...
... unreasonable hinderances and delays in the administration of justice ; not that a county is too large for reli ... unreasonable delay ; " but he does not go on and define even that . Therefore my defini- tion seeks to remedy that defect ...
Strana 36
... unreasonable inconvenience , we have established our case beyond a particle of controversy . And , now I have the honor to submit to you that I establish every one of the conditions on which I think you would have a right to insist . In ...
... unreasonable inconvenience , we have established our case beyond a particle of controversy . And , now I have the honor to submit to you that I establish every one of the conditions on which I think you would have a right to insist . In ...
Strana 42
... unreasonably , and not at ease in the transaction of business , and in regard to every one of the ends and objects for which a county is created , -largely and seriously incommoded in regard to the attainment of justice , in regard to ...
... unreasonably , and not at ease in the transaction of business , and in regard to every one of the ends and objects for which a county is created , -largely and seriously incommoded in regard to the attainment of justice , in regard to ...
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argument attainment of justice Attorney at Law behalf Berkshire Boston burthen committee Commonwealth constitution coun county accommodations county buildings county of Worcester county organization court house delay distance division docket ease established estates everywhere evil extra expense fact favor feel Fitchburg forty thousand friends go to Worcester honor to submit Hoosac Tunnel incommoded inconvenience indifferent interests law suit legislature Leominster locality majority mass of numbers matter ment Middlesex County Millers river Norfolk North Worcester obliged obtain justice old Hampshire parties perfectly persons petition population principle Probate Court promptly proposition public sense question railroads real and considerable reason regard Registry of Deeds relief respectable county respectfully submit satisfied shire town side tion to-day topics town meeting trial trial by jury tried unnecessary and unreasonable valley valuation whole number witnesses Worcester and Middlesex Worcester County
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Strana 52 - All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness.
Strana 53 - IT is essential to the preservation of the rights of every individual, his life, liberty, property and character, that there be an impartial interpretation of the laws, and administration of justice. It is the right of every citizen to be tried by judges as free, impartial and independent as the lot of humanity will admit.
Strana 52 - Every subject of the commonwealth ought to find a certain remedy, by having recourse to the laws for all injuries or wrongs which he may receive in his person, property, or character. He ought to obtain right and justice freely, and without being obliged to purchase it; completely, and without any denial; promptly, and without delay; conformably to the laws.
Strana 53 - In all controversies concerning property, and in all suits between two or more persons, except in cases in which it has heretofore been otherways used and practised, the parties have a right to a trial by jury ; and this method of procedure shall be held sacred, unless, in causes arising on the high seas, and such as relate to mariners' wages, the legislature shall hereafter find it necessary to alter it.
Strana 52 - Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.
Strana 52 - The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government, is to secure the existence of the body politic; to protect it; and to furnish the individuals who compose it, with the power of enjoying, in safety and tranquillity, their natural rights and the blessings of life...
Strana 33 - H. in the beginning thereof there were many new Plantations carrying on, both about the Bay, and up higher in the country, as far as Connecticut River, an hundred miles westward from Boston. And now the country increasing, and growing every year more populous than other, by the addition of many hundred families, that every season were resorting thither, it was judged |) necessary || to make some further progress in settling the government, by some other forms or ways of Council and Courts of Judicature,...
Strana 33 - June, 1641, it was enacted that " whereas it is desired by this Court to ease the country of all unnecessary travels and charges, it is ordered that there shall be four Quarter Courts kept yearly by the magistrates of Ipswich and Salem, with...
Strana 33 - S;ilem to attend every of these Courts, but no jurymen to be warned from Ipswich to Salem, nor from Salem to Ipswich ; to each of these places a grand jury shall be warned once a year, and these Courts to have the same power both in civil and criminal causes the Court of Assistants hath at Boston, except trials for life, limbs or banishment, which are wholly reserved to Boston Court; provided it shall be lawful to appeal from ¡my of these Courte to Boston.
Strana 73 - Let me tell him that the true descendent of the men who fought at Bunker Hill, would be the first to say to this government ; — '• Gentlemen, assign me my civil or military post, and there I will stand, and there I will fall, by whatsoever name you please to call the county in which I live. Whatsoever place you assign me, in the attainment of justice, — whatsoever place you assign me in the accommodation of my...