 | Law - 1881 - 1014 pages
...all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights the which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by...property and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." The Virginia Bill was the work of George Mason, a man deeply versed in English parliamentary... | |
 | Bernard Janin Sage - Constitutional history - 1881 - 656 pages
...men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when thcy enter into a state of society, they cannot by any...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - History - 1883 - 706 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...II. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; that magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - United States - 1883 - 734 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. IL That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; that magistrates... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Virginia - 1883 - 594 pages
...cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity." And these rights are named : they are " the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." All power, he says, is " vested in and consequently derived from the people;" and " magistrates... | |
 | John Esten Cooke - Virginia - 1883 - 578 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 their posterity." And these rights are named : they are " the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 480 pages
...foundation of government : " All men are by nature equally free, and have inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. " All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; magistrates are their... | |
 | West Virginia. Department of Health - Public health - 1884 - 40 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...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." The law we are considering is claimed to conflict... | |
 | West Virginia - Law - 1884 - 994 pages
...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...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 2. All power is vested in, and consequently derived... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John P. McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - Education - 1884 - 1242 pages
...all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inhere! rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by...posterity, namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, will the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.... | |
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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... 
