Massachusetts General Court (1636) resolved to establish a code of laws that would be:
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1636MC001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Massachusetts General Court, 1636, resolved to establish a code of laws, Massachusetts Colonial Records, 1:174. Benjamin Fletcher Wright, Jr., American Interpretations of Natural Law (New York: Russell & Russell, 1962), p. 33. John Eidsmoe, Christianity and the Constitution-The Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, A Mott Media Book, 1987, 6th printing 1993), p. 32.