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ADDRESS &c.

friends and countrymen,

HAVING had your Appointment and Inſtruction, we have undertaken the arduous Taſk of preparing a civil Conſtitution for the People of the Maſſachuſetts Bay; and we now ſubmit it to your candid Conſideration. It is your Intereſt to reviſe it with the greateſt Care and Circumſpection, and it is your undoubted Right, either to propoſe ſuch Alterations and Amendments as you ſhall judge proper, or, to give it your own Sanction in its preſent Form, or, totally to reject it.

In framing a Conſtitution, to be adapted as far as poſſible to the Circumſtances of Poſterity

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