 | John Winslow Whitman - 1829 - 314 pagina’s
...the constitution did not think so. By declaring in the sixteenth article of the Bill of Rights that ' the liberty of the press is essential to the security of freedom in a state, and ought not therefore to be restrained in this commonwealth ' — they placed the rights of the press... | |
 | Joel Barlow Sutherland - 1830 - 404 pagina’s
...the right thereof remain inviolate, [Sec I Binn. 416. 8 Wheat. 6M. SECT. VII. The printing presses shall be free to every person who undertakes to examine the proceedings of the legislature, or any hranch of government: And no law shall ever be made to restrain the right thereof.— The free communication... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1835 - 624 pagina’s
...intentions. The sixteenth article of the declaration of rights, contained in the former, asserts, that " the liberty of the press is essential to the security...; it ought not therefore to be restrained in this commonwealth." The fifteenth article in the constitution of the latter declares in still stronger terms,... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - 1832 - 276 pagina’s
...relate to mariners wages, the legislature shall hereafter find it necessary to alter it. XVI.—THE liberty of the press is essential to the security...it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this Commonwealth. XVII.—THE people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence. And... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1833 - 806 pagina’s
...as relate to mariners wages, the legislature shall hereafter find it necessary to alter it. XVI. — THE liberty of the press is essential to the security...it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this Commonwealth. XVII. — THE people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence. And... | |
 | Massachusetts. Attorney General's Office - 1915 - 396 pagina’s
...XVI. of the Declaration of Rights, secures the liberty of the press in the following language: — The liberty of the press is essential to the security...it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this commonwealth. Notwithstanding the fact that the liberty of the press is thus secured against restraint,... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 pagina’s
...a state government, whose constitution, like that, for instance, of Massachusetts, declares, that " the liberty of the press is essential to the security...it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this commonwealth." What is the true interpretation of this clause? Does it prohibit the legislature from... | |
 | Andrew Dunlap - 1834 - 278 pagina’s
...not disturb the public peace or obstruct others in their religious worship." Article 16th, says, — "The liberty of the press is essential to the security...; IT OUGHT NOT THEREFORE TO BE RESTRAINED IN THIS COMMONWEALTH." The 6th Section of the 6th Chapter of the Constitution of the State, is as follows:... | |
 | Abner Kneeland, Samuel Dunn Parker - 1834 - 282 pagina’s
...slavish subserviency to the party in power. By the Constitution of Massachusetts, it is declared, that " the liberty of the press is essential to the security...State; it ought not therefore to be restrained in this Commonwealth." It is obvious that this language refers to freedom of discussion in political matters.... | |
 | Abner Kneeland - 1834 - 320 pagina’s
...sixteenth article of the same declaration, in which they secure the liberty of the press, as follows: "The liberty of the press is essential to the security...it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this State." , These two clauses were designed to cut off, and do cut off, all right to exercise that infamous... | |
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The liberty of the press is essential to the security of freedom in a state': it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this commonwealth. 
