 | West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Edgar P. Rucker - 1885 - 940 pages
...Article IH of our constitution, our bill of rights, section 1 (see Acts of 1872-3, p. 5), provides that "all men are by nature equally free and independent...inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state ot society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity, namely: The enjoyment of... | |
 | Howard Willis Preston - 1886 - 344 pages
...ed., VIII., 378; cen. ed., V., 254 ; last ed., IV., 416 ; Frothingham 's Rise, 511 ; Cooke's Va., 439. A DECLARATION OF RIGHTS, Made by the Representatives...posterity as the basis and foundation of government. I. That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which,... | |
 | R. C. van Caenegem - 1995 - 352 pages
...Virginia, which contained two panels, a bill of rights and a description of the organization of the state, 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 and... | |
 | Wayne D. Moore - 1998 - 312 pages
...and enlightened people will regulate their conduct. ... We have one, Sir, That all men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter society, they cannot by any compact divest their posterity") (paraphrasing article 1 of the Virginia... | |
 | Gary L. McDowell, L. Sharon Noble, Sharon L. Noble - 1997 - 350 pages
...with a directness that has seldom been imitated, Mason set down for Virginians those rights "which ... do pertain to them, and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government."6 Jefferson's own constitutional model for the Convention shows that his mind and Mason's... | |
 | Gary Kates - 1998 - 377 pages
...those rights of the people which could never be divested by any compact. Hence the formulation of the "DECLARATION OF RIGHTS made by the Representatives of the good people of VIRGINIA.. . which rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of Government."... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - 1999 - 212 pages
...purposes different in any respect from those for which they had ratified their state constitutions. A declaration of rights made by the representatives of the good people of Virginia . . . which ... do pertain to them and their posterity as the basis and foundation of government. The... | |
 | Guðmundur S. Alfreðsson, Asbjørn Eide - 1999 - 822 pages
...begin with a rapid survey of classical Western predecessors to the UDHR. The admirable and pioneering declaration of rights made by the representatives of the good people of Virginia (12 June 1776) is squarely based on natural rights and contract theory. It declares: That all men are... | |
 | Peter Haberle - 2000 - 590 pages
...Dieser Gedanke wurde in Amerika 1776 aufgegriffen, wo nach dem Zusammenbruch der britischen Herrschaft »the representatives of the good people of Virginia, assembled in full and free convention«, um im Juni 1776 ihre Menschenrechtserklärung zu entwerfen und zu verkünden.7 Sie waren damit dem... | |
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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. 
