 | Joseph Tate - 1841 - 992 pages
...office of president, shall be eligible to that of vice-president of the United States. BILL OF RIGHTS.* A Declaration of Rights made by the Representatives...posterity, as the basis and foundation of government. Unanimously adopted, June 12, 1776. [9 St. Larg. 109.] 1. That all men are by nature equally free and... | |
 | 1841 - 460 pages
...for or against each amendment separately and distinctly. CONSTITUTION OF VIRGINIA. BILL OF RIGHTS. A Declaration of Rights made by the Representatives of the good People of V IBOINIA, assembled in full and free Convention ; which rights do pertain to them, and their Posterity,... | |
 | 1842 - 712 pages
...absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind." THE CONSTITUTION OF VIRGINIA. — "A declaration of rights made by the representatives...full and free convention, which rights do pertain lo them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government, Unanimously adopted, June 12,... | |
 | 1843 - 434 pages
...RILL OF RIGRTS. A Declaration of Rights made by the Representatives of the good People O/°VIROISUA, assembled in full and free Convention ; -which rights...Posterity, as the basis and foundation of Government. Unanimously adopted, June 12th, 1776. 1. TRAT all men are by nature equally free and independent, and... | |
 | Lysander Spooner - 1845 - 168 pages
...slavery. The rest of the Virginia constitution is eminently democratic. The bill of rights declares " that all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights," * * " namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property,... | |
 | 1845 - 564 pages
...maxims, which tend to the prostration of republicanism^ We have one, sir, that all men are by nature free and independ•ent, and- have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity. We have a set of maxims of... | |
 | 1845 - 552 pages
...maxims, which tend to the prostration of republicanism. We have one, sir, that all men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter mto society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity. We have a set of maxims... | |
 | Lysander Spooner - 1845 - 168 pages
...slavery. The rest of the Virginia constitution is eminently democratic. The bill of rights declares " that all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inner48 THE UNCONSTITUTIONALITY OF SLAVERY. ent rights," * * " namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty,... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1847 - 506 pages
...VIRGINIA. ADOPTED JANUARY 14TH, 1830. ARTICLE 1. The Declaration of Rights made on the 12th June, 1776, by the representatives of the good people of Virginia, assembled in full and free convention, which pertained to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government ; requiring in the... | |
 | Samuel Owen - 1847 - 490 pages
...dethroned in the "Ancient Dominion ;" and the colonial government dissolved. On the lath of June, 1776, " The representatives of the good people of Virginia, assembled in full and free convention," at Williamsburg, issued a Declaration of Rights, " which do pertain to them and their posterity, as... | |
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A declaration of rights made by the representatives of the good people of Virginia, assembled in full and free convention; which rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government. 
