 | Lysander Spooner - 1845 - 168 דפים
..." that all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights," * * " namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the...possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." 2. The preamble to the Pennsylvania constitution used the word "slaves" in this connexion.... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1853 - 884 דפים
...unconstitutional, because of the clause in the Virginia bill of rights, which declares "that all men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inherent rights...of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing Tux, 1853. ] Mutin et al. Ez parte. and obtaining happiness and safety." And of this, he said: "to... | |
 | Jonathan French - 1847 - 506 דפים
...their Posterity, as the basis and foundation of Government. Unanimously adopted, June 12/A, 1776. 1 . That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently dorived from, the people ; that magistrates... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1040 דפים
...representatives of the people of Virginia, assembled in convention, adopted a bill of rights, as follows : " That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. " That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; that magistrates... | |
 | 1848 - 544 דפים
...foundation." This Declaration of Rights, bearing date June 12, 1776, announced among other things, " that all men are by nature equally free and independent,...possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." Upon " the basis and foundation" of this Declaration of Rights, the convention proceeded... | |
 | John Bigelow - 1848 - 538 דפים
...Posterity, as the basis and foundation • of Government. Unanimously adopted, June IZth, 1776. SEC. 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; that magistrates... | |
 | 1827 - 452 דפים
...which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest tlirir posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing propertv, and pursuing and obtaining happiness.1*' In pursuance of this principle the committee find... | |
 | George Long - 1850 - 704 דפים
...rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they caunot by any compact deprive or divest posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty,...possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." |5,: " That no free government or the blessing of liberty, "n be preserved to any people,... | |
 | Virginia - 1851 - 1348 דפים
...men are by nature equally free and independent, and hare certain inherent rights, of which, when tfwy enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any...and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happinfM and safety. 3. That all power is vested in. and consequently derived from the people ; that... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - 1852 - 334 דפים
...nature equally free and independent, and have certain INHERENT RIGHTS, of which, when they enter into society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest...of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing happiness and safety." Virginia Bili qf lit'g/its, Art. I. FIRST ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED EDITION. iKUtl)... | |
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That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with... 
