 | Virginia - 1803 - 1026 էջ
...they enter into a ftate of fbciety, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divert their pofterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and poilellirg property, and pnrfuing and obtaining happinefs and fafety.-^II. THAT all power is veiled... | |
 | John Wilson Campbell, Moses Hoge - 1813 - 322 էջ
...which rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government. I. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing happiness and safety. II. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that... | |
 | Stephen Cullen Carpenter - 1815 - 514 էջ
...which tend directly to the total overthrow and prostration of republicanism. That all men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity, was one of our maxims. We had... | |
 | Virginia, William Waller Hening - 1823 - 462 էջ
...nature equally free and in- inherent dependent, and have certain inherent rights, of'which, nehwwben they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. II.. That all power is vested in, and consequently de- Powerof rived from, the people; that... | |
 | Virginia, William Waller Hening - 1821 - 674 էջ
...nature equally free and Inherent independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, r '£'119when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; name-' ly, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property,... | |
 | Isaac Candler - 1824 - 540 էջ
..." all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain rights of which they cannot deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring or possessing property." And yet if a citizen of that State wishes to do all in his power towards the... | |
 | Isaac Candler - 1824 - 522 էջ
...by the laws of Lycurgus and of the Romans can avail nothing. The Virginian Bill of Rights declares, that " all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain rights of which they cannot deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty,... | |
 | Isaac Candler - 1824 - 530 էջ
...by the laws of Lycurgus and of the Romans can avail nothing. The Virginian Bill of Rights declares, that " all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain rights of which they cannot deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty,... | |
 | Henry Clay - 1827 - 200 էջ
...the Government of this State, in the first section of the Bill of Rights, in the following words : " That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness." In pursuance of this principle, the committee find the following provision in the fourth section of... | |
 | 1827 - 524 էջ
...observance is essential to the security of happiness. It is We have one, sir, that all men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity. We have a set of maxims of... | |
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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... 
