It is a political maxim as old as civil legislation, that laws should be strictly homogeneous with the principles of the government whose will they express, embodying and carrying them out-being indeed the principles themselves, in Preceptive form-representatives alike of the nature and the power of the Government-standing illustrations of its genius and spirit, while they proclaim and enforce its authority.
"The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus"
American Anti-Slavery Society
It is a political maxim as old as civil legislation, that laws should be strictly homogeneous with the principles of the government whose will they express, embodying and carrying them out-being indeed the principles themselves, in Preceptive form-representatives alike of the nature and power of the Government-standing illustrations of its genius and spirit, while they proclaim and enforce its authority.
"The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus"
American Anti-Slavery Society
2. Marriage shall always be solemnized in the presence of two or more witnesses, by the distinct acknowledgment of the parties before some member of the Preceptive, or of the Parentive Circle, selected to preside on the occasion.
"History of American Socialisms"
John Humphrey Noyes