 | Lysander Spooner - Slavery - 1845 - 168 pages
..." that 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." 2. The preamble to the Pennsylvania constitution used the word "slaves" in this connexion.... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 884 pages
...declares "that all men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inherent rights of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by...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 - United States - 1847 - 506 pages
...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...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently dorived from, the people ; that magistrates... | |
 | John Bigelow - Constitutions - 1848 - 538 pages
...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...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; that magistrates... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...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...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. " That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; that magistrates... | |
 | 1848 - 544 pages
...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...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." Upon " the basis and foundation" of this Declaration of Rights, the convention proceeded to... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1004 pages
...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...their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberly, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pu: suing aud obtaining happiness... | |
 | 1827 - 452 pages
...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 tlirir posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing... | |
 | George Long - France - 1850 - 704 pages
...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,...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 - Virginia - 1851 - 1348 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
