Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Published in Conformity to a Resolve of the Legislature of April 26, 1853
VII. Government is instituted for the common good for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men Therefore the people alone have an incontestible, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness re quire it.
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