 | John Codman Hurd - 1858 - 678 էջ
...adopted, known as the Virginia Declaration of Rights (1 Hen. 47), of which the first article reads, " That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...the means of acquiring and possessing property, and the pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. 1 The fourth article—" That no man or set of men... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1859 - 790 էջ
...adopted by the convention of 1829-'30, and re-adopted by the convention of 1860-'51, says: "All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; magistrates are their trustees... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 792 էջ
...adopted by the convention of 1829-'30, and re-adopted by the convention of 1850-'51, says : " All men are by nature equally free and independent, and have...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; magistrates are their trustees... | |
 | GEORGE BANCROFT - 1860 - 488 էջ
...posterity, as the basis and foundation of government : " All men are by nature equally free, and have inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. " All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people ; magistrates are their... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1860 - 490 էջ
...posterity, as the basis and foundation of government: " All men are by nature equally free, and have inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. " All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; magistrates are their... | |
 | Virginia - 1862 - 238 էջ
...gnad people of VIRGINIA, axsembled in full and free Convention, which -rights do pertain to them and their posterity as the basis and foundation of government....have certain inherent rights, of which, when they cuter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely,... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1864 - 694 էջ
...the 27th of May by George Mason,' which proclaims that " All men are by nature equally free, and have inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." See also the Mecklenburg Declaration. The original draft of the Declaration of American Independence... | |
 | Thomas Low Nichols - 1864 - 388 էջ
...their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government. Unanimously adopted June 12th, 1776. " 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...by any compact deprive or divest their posterity. " 2. That all power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; that magistrates are their... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1865 - 670 էջ
...the 27th of May by George Mason,4 which proclaims that " All men are by nature equally free, and have inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." See also the Mecklenburg Declaration. The original draft of the Declaration of American Independence... | |
 | George Lunt - 1866 - 584 էջ
...June 12, 1776, more than three weeks earlier. Of the latter instrument the first article reads : " That all men are by nature equally free and independent,...property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety." But at the very time that Bill of Rights was unanimously adopted by the Convention of Virginia,... | |
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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... 
