 | William Jay Youmans - Science - 1898 - 902 pages
...Bills of Rights to be found in the State Constitutions that followed in the wake of the Declaration, " are by nature equally free and independent, and have...which, when they enter into a state of society, they can not by any compact deprive or divest their posterity — namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty,... | |
 | 1899 - 380 pages
...(Staaten öorbtlblidj geworbene erfte, bie Sirginia'ê »ont 12. 3uni 1776 erwaimt3). ^>ier beifjt eä : That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or devest their posterity ; namely the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and... | |
 | R. Bruce Douglass, Joshua Mitchell - Reference - 2000 - 274 pages
...Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid. The Virginia Bill of Rights (written by George Mason in 1776): [A]ll men are by nature equally free and independent, and have...the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. The Vermont Declaration of Independence... | |
 | G. Alan Tarr - Law - 2000 - 262 pages
...the proper, natural and safe Defense of a free Government"; and the Virginia Declaration of Rights that "all men are by nature equally free and independent,...they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity."63 Even provisions that might be enforceable sometimes included explanatory or justificatory... | |
 | Norman G. Kurland, Dawn K. Brohawn, Michael D. Greaney - Old age pensions - 2004 - 262 pages
...www.cesj.org "All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." George Mason ( " Father of the American Bill of Rights") Article 1 of the Virginia Declaration... | |
 | Stephen M. Feldman - Law - 2000 - 288 pages
...rights: "all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights . . . namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." Hence, while the first state constitutions were not solely republican in nature — rather... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...constitution — declared that "all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain rights, of which, when they enter into a state of...they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity."7 Far from having no weight in constructing the new governments, this doctrine of equality,... | |
 | Paul Finkelman - History - 2002 - 488 pages
...Virginia Declaration was carefully designed to finesse the issue of slavery. The document declared that: All men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.34 In his first draft of this clause George Mason had written that all men were "born equally... | |
 | Thomas G. West - History - 1997 - 244 pages
...was a fundamental natural right. The first article of the 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights reads: That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.6 The constitutions of several other states either quoted or paraphrased the Virginia language,... | |
 | Willi Paul Adams - History - 2001 - 406 pages
...the first of them, the Virginia bill of rights. They "have certain inherent rights, of which, . . . they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety."20 In contrast to the Declaration of Independence, this formulation did not invoke a divine... | |
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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... 
