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Massachusetts Body of Liberties - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Massachusetts Body of Liberties was the first legal code to be established by European colonists in New England. Compiled by the Puritan minister Nathaniel Ward, the laws were established by the...
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Liberties more peculiarlie concerning the free men. ... Liberties of Forreiners and Strangers. ... Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
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The Massachusetts Body of Liberties was, as far as is known, the first code of laws in New England. Not surprisingly, they were compiled by a Puritan Minister and lawyer, Nathaniel Ward, who came to America in 1634 and preached for a time in Ipswich, Mass.
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Massachusetts "Body of Liberties," established by the General Court in December, 1641 ... THE free fruition of such liberties, Immunities, and priveledges as humanitie, Civilitie, and Christianitie call for asdue to every man in his place and proportion, without impeachment, and infringement, hath ever bene and ever will...
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The laws of this colony were set out in a document called the Body of Liberties, ... The US Constitution, by denying to government the power to coerce religious opinion and expression, was written precisely to the sort of roguery and terror perpetrated by theocratic governments like the British colony in Massachusetts.
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ERHAPS no other writing from the Puritan Era had so far-reaching an effect as this document, which laid the foundations of Massachusetts liberties, for which New Englishmen fought against the Empire in the 1680's and during the American Revolution, and which became a pattern of ... he Massachusetts Body of Liberties;
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The Massachusetts "Body of Liberties" of 1641 stated that "if any man after legal conviction shall have or worship any other god, but the lord god, he shall be put to death." Death was also prescribed for witchcraft, blasphemy, murder, sodomy, homosexuality, adultery, and kidnapping.
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