| Virginia - 1867 - 598 pages
...rights do pertain to them and their posterity as the lasts and foundation of government. 1. What all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. -. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from the people ; that magistrates... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 1868 - 940 pages
...convention, which rights do pertain to them and their posterity as the basis and foundation of government : 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That this State shall ever remain a member of the United States of America, and that the people thereof... | |
| GEORGE BANCROFT - 1868 - 490 pages
...posterity, as the basis and foundation of government: "All men are by nature equally free, and have inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. " All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; magistrates are their... | |
| 1890 - 548 pages
...privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States." And the "Bill of Rights " of this State declares that " all men are, by nature, equally free and independent,...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." Const., art. 3. § 1. Can the Legislature, iu view... | |
| John Brown Dillon - 1871 - 156 pages
...Convention assembled, passed a Bill of Rights, in which the following declarations appear : — 1st. — " That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by compact, deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means... | |
| John Brown Dillon - 1871 - 148 pages
...Convention assembled, passed a Bill of Eights, in which the following declarations appear:— 1st.—" That all men are by nature equally free and Independent,...they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by compact, deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means... | |
| Charles Deane - 1874 - 22 pages
...declaration, given above, corresponds to the first article from the Virginia Declaration, which follows : — "That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of lite and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness... | |
| Thomas Low Nichols - 1874 - 554 pages
...their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government . Unanimously adopted June izth, 1776. " i. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...by any compact deprive or divest their posterity. " 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates are their... | |
| 1921 - 510 pages
...assurance, as near as may be, should be in the spirit of the Founders of governments in America, viz: "That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...of society, they cannot by any compact, deprive or divert their posterity, namely the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the- means of acquiring and... | |
| 1875 - 398 pages
...upon the famous Declaration of Rights, declaring that " All men are by nature equally free, and have inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a...by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity, etc."; adopted a preamble and resolutions on independence; and instructed their delegates to the General... | |
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