...with free and black with slave.205 The famous passage in Virginias Declaration of Rights - "all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights" - was followed by a proviso that was commonly understood as 2oo See Dred Scott at 416. 2o1 See Max...

...meet the same deductive method in the Bill of Rights in the Constitution of Virginia (1776): "All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights ...."4 The word "are" is not a factual report— think of slavery —but an expression of an ideological...

...etwa die ,Virginia Bill of Rights' galt, auch wenn in ihrem l . Absatz zu lesen ist, „that all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights". Die Idee der Gerechtigkeit und der Universalität, die den Menschenrechten innewohnt - auch wenn diese...

...set of men have, to govern others, except their own consent? (Alexander Hamilton, 1775)'° [A]ll 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...

...drafting the more famous Declaration of Independence, adopted three weeks later. Mason wrote: 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;...

...drafted by George Mason and adopted just prior to the Declaration of Independence, provided: 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;...

...... civil convulsion." More moderate men struck a compromise. The final version read 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 be deprived. By making these subtle changes,...

...pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government. SUCTION 1 . That all men ghtly: it is dearness only that gives even- thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity;...

...the Federal Convention, reported by James Madison, 630. 1 24. Its first sentence reads "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!.]"...

...Rights is derived knew and declared the importance of property rights when he wrote ". . . 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;...