 | Massachusetts - 1914 - 80 pages
...press is essential to the security of freedom in a state : it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this commonwealth. XVII. The people have a right...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. General Court - Massachusetts - 1915 - 728 pages
...to be restrained in this commonwealth. ART. XVII. The people have a right to keep and to bear anus for the common defence. And as, in time of peace,...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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1915 - 884 pages
...language is: "The people have a right to keep and bear arms for the common defense, and as in times of peace armies are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be maintained without consent of the legislature." In that of Connecticut: "Every citizen has a right to bear arms in defense... | |
 | Arthur Norman Holcombe - State governments - 1916 - 518 pages
...worthless by powerful and lawless usurpers, the Massachusetts declaration of rights also declared that "the people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence." 2 The right of the people to keep and bear arms was guaranteed in the same manner and for the same... | |
 | ARTHUR N. HOLCOMBE - 1919 - 572 pages
...worthless by powerful and lawless usurpers, the Massachusetts declaration of rights also declared that "the people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence." 2 The right of the people to keep and bear arms was guaranteed in the same manner and for the same... | |
 | Massachusetts - Constitutional law - 1918 - 88 pages
...restrained in this commonwealth, XVII. The jpeople .have a right to keep and to bear arms for trie common defence. And as, in time of peace, armies are...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 Convention - Constitution - 1920 - 568 pages
...initiative or referendum petition. See Amendments, Art. XLVIII, The initiative, II, sect. 2.] 2.VU. The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence. And as, in tune of peace, armies are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be maintained without the consent... | |
 | Massachusetts - Session laws - 1918 - 1016 pages
...press is essential to the security of freedom in a state: it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this commonwealth. . XVII. The people have a right to keep and to bear standing armies arms for the common defence. And as, in time of peace, dangerous. . . ... . . i Military... | |
 | Massachusetts - Session laws - 1919 - 1138 pages
...of an initiative or referendum petition. See amendments, Art. XLVIII, The initiative,' II, soot. 2. XVII. The people have a right to keep and to bear...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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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... 
