Constitution · New Hampshire

N.H. Const. pt. 1, art. 3

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Constitution of New Hampshire
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October 2026

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When men enter into a state of society, they surrender up some of their natural rights to that society, in order to ensure the protection of others; and, without such an equivalent, the surrender is void. June 2, 1784

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