etre egalement repartie entre tous les citoyens en raison de leurs
facultes._

MASSACHUSETTS, X. Each individual of the society has a right to be
protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property,
according to standing laws. He is obliged, consequently, to contribute
his share to the expense of this protection; to give his personal
service, or an equivalent, when necessary.

14. _Tous les citoyens ont le droit de constater, par eux memes ou par
leur representants, la necessite de la contribution publique, de la
consentir librement, d'en suivre l'emploi, et d'en determiner la
qualite, l'assiette, le recouvrement et la duree._

MASSACHUSETTS, XXIII. No subsidy, charge, tax, impost, or duties, ought
to be established, fixed, laid or levied, under any pretext whatsoever,
without the consent of the people, or their representatives in the
legislature.

15. _La societe a le droit de demander compte a tout agent public de son
administration._

See above, VIRGINIA, II; further

MASSACHUSETTS V. All power residing originally in the people, and being
derived from them, the several magistrates and officers of government
vested with authority, whether legislative, executive, or judicial, are
the substitutes and agents, and are at all times accountable to them.

16. _Toute societe, dans laquelle la garantie des droits n'est pas
assuree, ni la separation des pouvoirs determinee, n'a point de
constitution._

NEW HAMPSHIRE, III. When men enter into a state of society, they
surrender up some of their natural rights to that society, in order to
insure the protection of others; and without such an equivalent, the
surrender is void.

MASSACHUSETTS, XXX. In the government of this commonwealth, the
legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial
powers, or either of them; the executive shall never exercise the
legislative and judicial powers, or either of them; the judicial shall
never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them;
to the end it may be a government of laws, and not of men.

17. _La propriete etant un droit inviolable et sacre, nul ne peut en
etre prive, si ce n'est lors que la necessite publique, legalement
constatee, l'exige evidemment, et sous la condition d'une juste et
prealable indemnite._

MASSACHUSETTS, X. ... But no part of the property of any individual can,
with justice, be taken from him, or applied to public uses, without his
own c