...the digest of 1647, for simplicity of diction, unencumbered as it is by the superfluous verbiage that clothes our modern statutes in learned obscurity ;...model of legislation which has never been surpassed. • The bill of rights embraces in concise terms, under four distinct heads, the fundamental principles...

...the digest of 1647, for simplicity of diction, unencumbered as it is by the superfluous verbiage that clothes our modern statutes in learned obscurity ;...model of legislation which has never been surpassed. The bill of rights embraces in concise terms, under four distinct heads, the fundamental principles...

...the digest of 1647, for simplicity of diction, unencumbered as it is by the superfluous verbiage that clothes our modern statutes in learned obscurity ;...comprehension, embracing as it does the foundation of the whole bocly of law, on every subject, which has since been adopted; -and for vigor and originality of thought,...

...the digest of 1647, for simplicity of diction, unencumbered as it is by the superfluous verbiage that clothes our modern statutes in learned obscurity ;...model of legislation which has never been surpassed. When the preliminary negotiations were completed, the General Assembly, or mass-meeting of citizens...

...the digest of 1647, for simplicity of diction, unencumbered as it is by the superfluous verbiage that clothes our modern statutes in learned obscurity;...model of legislation which has never been surpassed." Arnold's History of Rhode Island, Vol. 1, p. 206. There is one article in this Code that reflects and...

...the digest of 1647, for simplicity of diction, unencumbered as it is by the superfluous verbiage that clothes our modern statutes in learned obscurity;...model of legislation which has never been surpassed." That sentence was written two centuries after the Code had been adopted at Newport. Stiness adds, "What...