 | R. Bruce Douglass, Joshua Mitchell - 2000 - 274 էջ
...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... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - 2004 - 574 էջ
...the first, it is affirmed That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain rights, of which, when they enter into a state of...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. By the second it is said that All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential,... | |
 | G. Alan Tarr - 2000 - 262 էջ
...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 - 2004 - 262 էջ
...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... | |
 | Thomas G. West - 1997 - 244 էջ
...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,... | |
 | Paul Finkelman - 2002 - 488 էջ
...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... | |
 | Michael Novak - 2001 - 378 էջ
...by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. Flowing from these "natural rights" are the "civil" and "political" rights, specifying the... | |
 | Willi Paul Adams - 2001 - 406 էջ
...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... | |
 | Wolfgang Fikentscher, Achim R. Fochem - 2002 - 336 էջ
...which rights do pertain to them and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government. Section 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. Sec. 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates... | |
 | Felix Hammer - 2002 - 612 էջ
...(entworfen von George Mason, abgedr.: Spaeth/Smith, S. 171-173 = Hall/Wiecek/Finkelman, S. 69 f.), Section 1 („That all men are by nature equally free and...acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaming happmess and safety"); Bill for establishing religious freedom v. 1785/86 für Virginia, im... | |
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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... 
