 | John Codman Hurd - Law - 1858 - 778 pages
...adopted, known as the Virginia Declaration of Bights (1 Hen. 47), of which the first article reads, " That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...which when they enter into a state of society, they caunot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity ; namely the enjoyment of life and liberty,... | |
 | United States. Attorney-General - Administrative law - 1858 - 600 pages
...happiness elsewhere ; and it is believed that this right of emigration, or expatriation, is one of those inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a...by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity. But, although municipal laws cannot take away or destroy this great right, they may regulate the manner,... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1859 - 790 pages
...adopted by the convention of 1829-'30, and re-adopted by the convention of 1860-'51, says: "All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; magistrates are their trustees... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1859 - 792 pages
...adopted by the convention of 1829-'30, and re-adopted by the convention of 1850-'51, says : " All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; magistrates are their trustees... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1860 - 488 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... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1860 - 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... | |
 | Virginia - Law - 1862 - 238 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,...have certain inherent rights, of which, when they cuter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely,... | |
 | Ezra Champion Seaman - Constitutional history - 1863 - 312 pages
...their Posterity, as the basig and foundation of Government. Unanimously adopted, June 12th, 1776. Sec. 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a •fcite of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment... | |
 | Thomas Low Nichols - Slavery - 1864 - 388 pages
...Declaration of Rights made by the Representatives of the Good People of VIRGINIA, assembled infull and free convention ; which rights do pertain to them...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... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
...the 27th of May by George Mason,' which proclaims that " 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." See also the Mecklenburg Declaration. The original draft of the Declaration of American Independence... | |
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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... 
