Colonial Origins of the American Constitution: A Documentary History. Agreement of the Settlers at Exeter in New Hampshire]Complete text and spelling taken from Isaac W. Hammond, ed., Documents Relating to Towns in New Hampshire (Concord, N. H.: Parsons B. Cogswell, 1.
The spelling and grammar of the original are retained here. The first document reproduced in this collection is a typical political covenant. A comparison with the Mayflower Compact [3] shows both the similarity with that earlier document as well as the more developed, detailed content of this one. It is quite certain that the people of Exeter had not read, or even heard of, the Mayflower Compact. The similarities between the two result instead from their common roots in the church covenant form. Many editors, including Francis N. Thorpe, reproduce the agreement only up to the thirty- five signatures.
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In this volume, however, the oaths immediately following in the town records are also reproduced because they are clearly part of the founding act. The words “doe in the name of Christ & in the sight of God” constitute the oath that makes this agreement a covenant, and the oaths of the elders and of the people following the signatures, to be administered later to everyone joining these categories, ensure that all future citizens and leaders are made parties to the original covenant.
Whereas it hath pleased the Lord to moue the heart of our Dread Soveraigne Charles, by the grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France & Ireland, to grant license & liberty to sundry of his subjects to plant themselves in the westerne partes of America: Wee, his loyall subjects, brethren of the church of Exeter, situate & lying upon Piscataquacke, wth other inhabitants there, considering wth ourselves the holy will of god and our owne necessity, that we should not live whout wholsome lawes & government amongst us, of wch we are altogether destitute; doe in the name of Christ & in the sight of God combine ourselves together, to erect & set up amongst us such government as shall be to our best discerning, agreeable Edition: current; Page: [4] to the will of god, professing ourselves subjects to our Sovereign Lord King Charles, according to the Libertys of our English Colony of the Massachusetts & binding ourselves solemnely by the grace & helpe of Christ & in his name & fear to submit ourselves to such godly & christian laws as are established in the realme of England to our best knowledge, & to all other such lawes wch shall upon good grounds, be made & inacted amongst us according to God, yt we may live quietly & peaceablely together, in all godliness and honesty.[Signed by John Whelewright and thirty- four others.]the elders or rulers oath. You shall swear by the great and dreadful Name of the High God, Maker and Governor of Heaven and earth and by the Lord Jesus Christ, the Prince of the Kings and rulers of the earth, that in his Name and fear you will rule and govern his people according to the righteous will of God, ministering justice and judgment on the workers of iniquite, and ministering due incouragement and countenance to well doers, protecting of the people so far as in you lieth, by the help of God from foreigne annoyance and inward desturbance, that they may live a quiet and peacabble life in all godliness and honesty.
So God be helpful and gracious to you and yours in Christ Jesus. We do swear by the Great and dreadful Name of the High God, Maker and Governor of heaven and earth, and by the Lord Jesus Christ, the King and Saviour of his people, that in his Name and fear, we will submit ourselves to be ruled and governed according to the will and word of God, and such wholsome laws and ordinances as shall be derived therefrom by our honored Rulers and the lawful assistants, with the consent of the people, and that we will be ready to assist them by the help of God, in the administration of justice and preservation of the peace, with our bodies and goods and best endeavors according to God. So God protect and save us and ours in Jesus Christ. Edition: current; Page: [5]2.
General Laws and Liberties of New Hampshire. The text is taken from N.
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H., 1. 86. 7), 3. The document is reproduced completely and with the original spelling. This document can be compared with such similar documents as the Pilgrim Code of Law, 1.
Massachusetts Body of Liberties, 1. Connecticut Code of Laws, 1. Pennsylvania Charter of Liberties, 1. Virginia codes [6. These early legal summaries, however, inevitably had a constitutional status as well.
For one reason, they defined the basic laws of what amounted to new polities because colonial charters granted significant independence for the creation and operation of local government. For another reason, because they selectively appropriated and altered English common law in light of their own beliefs and local situation, these codes amounted to a conscious refounding of English constitutionalism. More than a simple code of law, then, this document, and others like it, contains the beginning of a bill of rights, as well as a description of the basic institutions, and served as a constitution. The Generall Lawes and Liberties of the Province of New Hampshire, made by the Generall Assembly in Portsmo the 1. March 1. 67. 9/8. Presidt and Councill. For as much as it hath pleased our Sovereigne Lord the King, out of his Princely Grace and favour, to take vs, the Inhabitants of New Hampshire, into his imediate Governmt and Protection, the wch, as we are ever bound to acknowledge wth great thankfulnesse, soe we have great reason to hope and believe yt his Majesty will still continue to countenance and incourage vs with ye Injoymt of such Libertyes, Imunities and ppties as belong to free borne Englishmen, and whereas his Majesty hath been pleased by his Letters Edition: current; Page: [6] Pattents, sent to vs, to confer such power upon ye Generall Assembly as to make such Lawes and ordinances as may best sute wth ye good Governmt and quiet settlemt of his Majesties subjects within this Province: It is therefore ordered and inacted by this Generall Assembly and the authority thereof, that no Act, Imposition, Law or Ordinance be made or imposed upon us but such as shall be made by the said Assembly and approved by the Presidt and Councill from time to time.
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That Justice and Right be equally and imparshally administered vnto all: not sold, denied or causelessly deferred unto any. Hen. 3, 2. 9 Stat.; 2 Edw. State.; 5 Edw. 3, 9 Stat; 1. Edw. 2. 8: Edw. 3, 3 Stat.; 1. R. 2, 1. 0, 1. 7; Caro.
Idollitry. 1. It is enacted by ye Assembly and ye authority thereof, yt if any pson having had the knowledge of the true God, openly and manifestly have or worship any other God but the Lord God, he shall be put to death. Ex. 2. 2: 2. 0; Deu. Blasphemy. 2. If any pson wthin ye Province professing ye true God shall wittingly and willingly presume to blaspheme the wholly name of God, Father, Son or Holy Ghost, wth direct, express, presumptions or high- handed blasphemy, either by willful or obstinate denying ye true God or his creation or Governmt of ye world, or shall curse God, Father, Son, or Holy Ghost, such pson shall be put to death. Levit. 2. 4: 1. 5 and 1. Treason. 3. Treason against ye pson of our Souereigne, ye King, the State, and Comon Wealth of England, shall be punished wth death. Publique Rebellion. If any man conspire and attempt any Invasion or insurrection or Publique Rebellion against this his Majesties Province, or shall endeavor to surprise any towne or townes, fort or forts therein, or shall treacherously or perfidiously attempt the alteration and subversion of the fundamental frame Edition: current; Page: [7] of ye Government, according to his Majesties constitution by his Letters Pattents, every such pson shall be put to death, or otherwise greveously punished.
If any pson shall comitt wilfull murther by killing any man, woe; or child, upon premeditated malice, hatred or cruelty, not in a way of necessary and just defence, nor by casualty against his will, he shall be put to death. If any pson slayeth another pson sudenly, in his anger and cruelty of passion, he shall be put to death.
If any pson shall slay another through guile, either by pysoning or other such devilish practice, he shall be put to death. Witchcraft. 8. If any Christian, soe called, be a witch, yt is, hath or consulted wth a familiar spirit, he or they shall be put to death. Beastiality. 9. If any man lie wth a beast or bruite creature by carnall copulation, they shall surely be put to death, and ye beast shall be slaine and buried, and not eaten. Buggery. 1. 0. If any man lieth with mankind as he lieth wth a woman, both of them hath committed abomination; they shall be surely put to death, unless the one pty were forced or be vnder 1. False Witness. 1.
And if any pson rise up by false witness, and of purpose to take away a man’s life, he shall be put to death. Man Stealing. 1. 2.
If any man stealeth mankind, he shall be put to death or otherwise grieviously punished. Cursing Parents. 1.
If any child or children above 1. Edition: current; Page: [8] put to death, unless it can be sufficiently testified that the parents have been very unchristianly negligent of ye education of such children, or soe provoked them by extreme cruell correction yt they have been forced thereunto to preserve themselves from death or maiming. A Rebellious Son.
If any man have a rebellious or stubborne son of sufficient years and vnderstanding, viz. Majestrates assembled in court, and testifie vnto them that theire son is rebelleous and stubborne, and will not obey theire voyce and chastizemt but lives in sundry notorious crimes, such son shall be put to death, or otherwise severely punished. Raped. 1. 5. If any man shall ravish a maid or woeman by committing carnal copulation wth her, that is above 1.