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Rh therefore, the people of Maachuetts, acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the goodnes of the Great Legilator of the Univere, in affording us, in the coure of His providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud, violence or urprize, of entering into an original, explicit, and olemn compact with each other; and of forming a new Contitution of Civil Government, for ourelves and poterity; and devoutly imploring His direction in o intereting a deign, DO agree upon, ordain and etablih, the following Declaration of Rights, and Frame of Government, as the CONSTITUTION of the COMMONWEALTH of

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